Smallest Print Ever BS - Featured on the MakerWorld first page…?!?

I keep seeing such models featured on the first page of MakerWorld.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3028846-smallest-print-ever?from=recommend#profileId-3403867

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2452808-world-s-smallest-3d-print?from=search#profileId-2692996

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3006641-the-real-smallest-3d-print?from=search#profileId-3376378

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2975356-the-smallest-print-ever-8-second-print-challenge?from=search#profileId-3337523

There are many variants of this BS popping up daily. I get the joke, but this is becoming no longer funny.

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Just more low effort attempts to game the points system.

Bambu really needs to clean up MakerWorld and get control of this mess.

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Oh no, now I’ve clicked on it, and my recommendations are full of “World’s Smallest …”. That’s a part of MakerWorld I’ve never seen before, and now it’s all over my start page.

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Just shows how many young/immature people are on MW.

It really shows when most of the related models are fidget toys.

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Some of them have thousands of prints and downloads. Maybe people really need them.

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The fidget toy epidemic on MW is sad. I’ve seen so many of these fidget toys being blatantly sold online in various shops, even though their license on MW does now allow for sale, I wonder if it’s a dilemma of which came first, the chick[en] or the egg. I often question where the original models actually came from, I doubt any of these are originally uploaded to yeggi or thingiverse.

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There’s no way on earth that isn’t from bots.

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If it were at least something like this, I could understand that - especially if you only have a few grams left on the spool… I can totally see that making sense before throwing away those few centimeters of filament.

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Okay, now I know where that came from. It was just a way of measuring how long it took the printer to be ready to start, and to return to its idle position after printing. Later, it even turned into a competition to see who could optimise it best - basically, the idea was to figure out how to optimise the start and end phases, for example using g-code.

However, what we see here is just a sad remnant of the original idea, since none of the profiles have customized settings nor customized g-code.


Real people - take a look at the comments and see how many people are really celebrating this with real photos. I would have preferred bots; now I’ve lost hope in humanity. :eyes:

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easiest way to “launder” prints for points, there are some real ugly discord communities out there

Remove the incentive and you’ll remove the problem, the memes will remain but the cynical cash grab algo manipulators will go away

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I do not understand how the system allows adding an almost empty model to be uploaded! As far as I know such an attempt should fail.

How were they able to upload such crap?

Take a look around MakerWorld. Anything can be posted in the first place. If anything, it will be checked out later - and only if a user reports it. Just bear in mind: They take a look, but they rarely take any action.

So the answer is company policy. Bambu probably figures: Why should they filter content when it’s literally printing money for them? Even poor-quality 3D models, when viewed in the broader context, consume filament and attract attention.

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