I have now been asked to update three different model profiles that didn’t have photos attached to them.
You may think that is the rule, and you are correct.
Except that these models were uploaded when this was NOT a rule.
Before the rule existed
@MakerWorld is requiring designers to retrospectively “fix” problems that were not problems when the models were originally uploaded.
Never mind that each of the models in question had many photos in the main model photos.
Essentially, designers are being asked to abide by rules MakerWorld had yet to set at the time.
I have over 800 models. Some of them were uploaded before the rule existed.
I have donated most of the models I have ever made, usually to schools.
When uploading profiles in the past, the system automatically added a thumbnail from the slicer, which was not only accepted, but it was their default position.
Question:
Do I think each profile should have a photo of the printed model to prove it works
Answer:
Absolutely
It is a good rule and I like it, but we are talking about models that were uploaded before this good model was implemented, and having read it, I agree.
Do I think models that were uploaded before the rule was ever created should be punished for not having the ability to guess what MakerWorld might come up with in the future?
NO
I do not know if it is ignorance or stupidity on the side of the staff. But, I inform them the rule never existed at the time, and the response I get is…
(crickets people)
They never respond; maybe it is incompetence.
Part of the problem stems from their flat-out refusal to provide any changelog to their communications.
The honest way of telling people that this thing occurred on this date.
They were actually caught out doing this previously when they changed their terms of service to their benefit and to deny customers rights previously bestowed.
The only way this was discovered was using the Wayback Machine, something they now block their site from being seen by, so they can (I assume) lie again in the future.
I am sick of their despicable behaviour.