Suspicious Activity by a bot

I’d like to report some seriously suspicious activity from a user named Bean Overlord: Bean Overlord | Published - MakerWorld
It most surely is a bot and has 14.4k+ downloads and 999+ profiles uploaded. Nothing wrong with that, but the profiles are irrelevant in most cases and might fool someone without any experience if he/she just hits print.
Furthermore, with his Level 30 (because of all the downloads and profile uploads), this could potentially mean the bot creator benefits unrightfully from Bambu.

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I have seen that too.
I can not remove his adds to my uploads!
He adds a new profile every minute

please look into it!

https://makerworld.com/de/u/548052505/profile

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Yup, “the thing” uploads a profile every minute… really not cool…

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And i checked: it is irrelevant for him if there are profiles! He simply adds his!

And you have NO WAY to stop that or remove them…

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Hello,

Please note that Bean Overlord is one of our MakerWorld colleagues.
We try to add print profiles to all models, so they can be easily printed.
It is not a bot.

If you find any problems with any profiles, please let us know and we will look into it
Thanks

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Well if you take a look at the previous comment, your “so-called employee” who obviously defies the laws of physics by uploading a profile every single minute, disregards whether there is already a profile or not. Furthermore, auto-uploading auto-generated profiles is just wrong if your goal is to make the models easy to print. Those profiles are rubbish. For example, I have a display box that is completely parametric, which was added a profile with .16 layer height, when it should be at least .2 depending on the size of the box you are printing. Anyway, I will not spend precious time fixing your dumb bot’s profiles. Just stop doing it. All you’re going to do is piss off the creators and the people, that are going to print rubbish by using the rubbish auto-generated profiles…

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If you can share a link, I can look into it to confirm if it is a problem or not.

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And oh boy, it’s even .12 adding at least 40% more print time… And yet again, I will not do this anymore, nor will other creators, I assume. Shi*ting all over the platform and expecting the people using it to clean up is wrong. Your choice anyway, but definitely not a good start… definitely…

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And clearly stating that those are auto-generated profiles is not only a must but also the right thing to do…

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Could you please let me know what is the issue with the slice?
The adjustments are made to ensure the printer can provide a good finish of the model and provide consistent extrusion quality.

If you wish, you can also add your own slicing profile, with the settings you wish to provide.
The creator’s profile will have priority.

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It is a box… It could be printed with a consistent extrusion quality and a good finish using any of your profiles. It is just dumb to use .12mm for a box when the result will be the same with .2mm. A bot of course won’t know that.
And again, even if I upload a profile, how could someone choose between mine and the one uploaded by “your employee” when you don’t state anywhere that it is autogenerated and not test-printed with that profile? Furthermore “your employee”'s profile looks like an ordinary profile which is even further misleading.

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Printing at a lower layer height can improve the print quality, as you can reach higher speeds and more consistent finish.

You can upload your own slicer profile if you wish. We encourage everyone to share their profiles for the models uploaded as this helps everyone to print the model with the One-Click Printing functionality.

Considering that there was no profile uploaded by you, a profile was uploaded with the recommended settings.

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Was passiert denn jetzt genau? Wenn ich ein Profil erstelle, bis ins Detail verfeinert, damit die Druckzeit annehmbar ist, das Druckergebnis brauchbar ist und Modifikatoren für Details enthalten sind, welche dann auch ihre speziellen Einstellungen haben? Wird das Profil dann überschrieben oder ein neues anderes Profil hinzugefügt, das automatisch generiert wurde?

Vielen Dank für die Klärung!

What exactly happens now? If I create a profile, refined in detail so that the print time is acceptable, the print result is usable and modifiers for details are included, which then also have their special settings? Is the profile then overwritten or a new different profile added that was automatically generated?

Thanks for the clarification!

If you create a profile when uploading the model, it will be added to the model listing and available for others to use.

Other profiles could be uploaded, which might contain different print settings and values. This will be presented as an option, and will not replace the one uploaded by the designer.

Finally, users who print the model with a specific profile are able to provide a rating for it, which will make it easier for others to choose the best profile.

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SIMPLY STOP THAT! It can not be that your “Colleague” adds profiles to Models where we did not add one or added one that was OUR Profile! We want the possibility to remove models that do not fit our way we see it fit.

If there is no Printprofile so be it!

But do not force us to do that! Or do it by your colleage-bot!
Leave the models alone! Thnx!

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I am sorry but that is not possible.

If you wish, you can add a print profile for your model. Otherwise, other MakerWorld users can upload one if they wish.

This is a feature which is useful for a lot of people, as it allows them to start a print easily.

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I object.
STOP adding unwanted profiles to OUR uploads.

Thanx!

And remove everything the colleage-bot added!

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As I have mentioned, that is not possible. It’s part of the website functionality.
There is no way to block the upload of a print profile for a model.

I am sorry if this is not what you wish to see, but the option is to either upload a profile or allow others to make it easier to start a print.

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Then please start to develop it.

It can not be that anyone can add an Profile that is so crappy and bad and i can not remove it!

This is not ok in my eyes.

If you knew, that you can not remove a unwanted profile, why did you do that to thousands of them than?

I think you have to think of an solution here.

“To make it easier to print” Sorry, but it is not your task to do that.
We creator and the Community will add profiles if needed. Thats the way of the community. WE do it. Not a company for us. If a profile gets no printprofile so noone thinks it needs one.

All print profiles are carefully set by our colleagues with experience in slicing models.
If there is a concern with one of the print profiles not being correctly sliced or not printing right, I would be happy to look into it and solve the problem.

But as I have mentioned, we are just trying to help in populating the models with print profiles to make it easier for everyone.

Everyone is free to add print profiles. We encourage designers to take the lead and upload the print profile at the same time with the model as that would be the easiest way to allow others to print the model in just a few taps.

And if we find print profiles with incorrect settings, we can remove them. But that’s not the case for the examples I have received.

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