I saw this the other day now on the rewards side of things and thought about how they could just pull the plug at anytime.
Yes, but as any bush-league attorney will quickly point out. Those one sided agreements have about as much legal shielding as bathroom tissue paper.
If you ever notice the amount of legalese that accompanies the fine print in things like contests or promotions, there a reason for that. The best example of what happens when a company doesn’t follow their own rules as Bambu is, would be the McDonalds Monopoly scandal.
That’s one that is probably the best known scandal because of its worldwide impact on a household brand name. But there are plenty of smaller law suits that occur when companies lure people in with promotions. Cingular wireless was nailed a few years back for offering up promotions to switch to their service and giving away “Visa Gift Cards” to so-called “qualifying members”. The problem was, they did make what qualifying actually means and even though they tried to shroud themselves behind “We reserve the right to… at any time…” They paid through the nose after a few ambulance chasers went after them. The sad part is that the people who got cheated like me were offered free service for six months seven years after I canceled my account. Didn’t do me much good but the lawyers who brought the class action suit against them got a nice pay day if I recall.
What’s also sad is that too many companies take reserves against profit and just chalk it up to “The cost of doing business”.
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Just got a response from the support:
“Under normal circumstances, we kindly request that you wait for approximately 7 days at the moment. We sincerely appreciate your time and patience throughout this process. We are continually enhancing and streamlining our system.”
Lost all hope, they don’t even know themselves why they banned me, they want me to give them 7 days to figure it out. “We sincerely appreciate your time” doesn’t really sound like it, sounds like you don’t care at all about my time, nor my followers in the middle of a multi-day project. What even is this, they just ban people left and right then we need to sit back and wait for them to find an excuse for it, if they don’t find an excuse will the unban me or just refuse to explain why they did ban me? Why do the not work like every other service since the existence of internet, wait until they have a reason to ban someone then tells that person while banning him? This whole operation is backwards.
Can this process be any more painful? If they don’t even care just say so. Why drag it out, just say so when you ban me, “You’re banned, we don’t care why and wont bother to check it, cya never”. They are just dragning it out making it even worse.
Even if I get unbanned, its not like I feel comfortable putting my models on the site. I spend hours trying to build a project for the community, give it out free of charge with only hopes that I will generate some downloads to get some filaments. But at any moment they can just let lose some mental AI to purge whatever it comes in contact with, with no repercussions or double checks what so ever and I will just have to bend over and take it, wait 7 days until they have time to manually verify what happened and see if they are in the mode to unban me?
Great news, I’m unbanned. Didn’t take them the 7 days only 28h so that was better than expected. But still left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Hope they learn from this. Feels like it all worked out backwards. I got banned by their automatic system because I gained to much downloads too fast. I have not tried to withdraw any rewards or anything alike. Feels like that’s when they should draw the line? Instead of banning innocent people who done nothing wrong or even tried to profit of their contribution then wait for a manual verification they could just not let people redeem points until they have been manually verified. Now it feels like the punish people who try to contribute to their whole eco system, the more you contribute the more popular you get, the higher the chance of you getting banned. Hopefully this didn’t put too much of a dent in my project and people will be afraid of downloading it from now on.
I really hope it solves itself for the rest of you guys!
Still seems a very big problem for Bambu Labs to figure out. I’ve even seen botted accounts that got all their models back with their fake numbers…
While I’m on my third ban for daring to upload a project people liked… Did you get your copy rights sorted out? How long has that process been?
Lmao, are they oblivious to the effect of featuring a model? Of course its going to get a lot of downloads if its:
A) featured on the front page
B) a hard case for a globally famous card game which doesn’t include a hard case.
Everyone that owns a 3d printer and UNO would wanna print that.
Really wonder what arbitrary lines they draw for botting behaviour, feels like it should be non-existing for featured models. They definitely should be immune to copy right as I assume featured models are not just picked randomly but very verified manually before featuting.
Evil minds that plot destruction…
… Sorcerer of death’s construction …
… Death and hatred to mankind …
… Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Obviously they’re out to get you. 
But seriously… this would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. It’s like the Keystone cops and the three stooges running Makerworld. The incompetency can’t just be explained away by the fact that it’s Beta. This is driving away the very same people they want as advocates.
Honestly though, seems like a super easy way to cause a lot of job for a person. Someone calls out your bot army? Someone offends you on the forum? Just download a couple of his models and have him banned, copy right strike them and they will get removed, the creator has to go through the hassle to get the claim manually verified. They wont have time and energy to point out your bot army, you will be able to continue botting. Ez win for the botters.
“Guilty until proven innocent”…
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Why bother with Makerworld?