MakerWorld has established a comprehensive set of Community Guidelines that clearly define the types of content that are prohibited on our platform. These guidelines cover all types of contentincluding modelsprint profilescommentslinksand thumbnails.
To ensure compliancewe use a combination of human reviewers and machine learning algorithmsapplying these guidelines equally to all usersregardless of their backgroundpolitical viewpointpositionor affiliation.
Our primary objective in implementing these policies is to foster a safe and inclusive community on MakerWorld. We aim to strike a balance between maintaining a safe environment and allowing creators the freedom to share a diverse range of experiences and perspectives.
The latest version of the Community Guidelines is available here: Community Guidelines - MakerWorld
If you would like to provide suggestions or commentsfeel free to do so in the comment section. Thanks!
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It says external links are prohibited? Could you please elaborate on that?
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What is considered an external link?
What links are allowed?
- YouTube
- Patreon
- Social media
- Others
Will you be taking down the guns and knives from MW?
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Henlor
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Through the feedback/comment from user I guess
Mayco
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Would be fairif enough “unique” users report it. Otherwise it could be abused quite easily.
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- It is mandatory for print profiles to be printed before making them public. We also require print profile creators to include their own actual print images along with their print profiles to demonstrate print-ability. If the profile does not include a real picture of the model printed with the print profileit will be removed.
Guess this one is brand new because not even 12 hours ago I had several reports ignored of a user I had reported breaking this exact rule.
- When publishing a public model under the CC0 licenseyou are required to include your own image of the actual print to show its printability. Otherwiseit will be removed.
About timenow the real question begs will you actually enforce it or just selectively depending on how popular it is?
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Henlor
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Unfortunately those two rules are not new. 
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Mayco
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Another question (similar to @MalcTheOracle I suppose):
4. Regulated goods such as:
Does this apply to propsfunctional firearmsor both? Legality varies by country.
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These two have always been thereeven quoting them in reports seems futile.
“applying these guidelines equally to all usersregardless of their backgroundpolitical viewpointpositionor affiliation.”
^^ Makes me laugh. I spent a week on one report in a support ticket going back and forth until they finally relented. And then I had to go through ticking off the offending items (4th timeyeah I’m like a dog with a bone). Level 30 privileges even though it was earned through nefarious practices.
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As much as I’m not interested in firearms/knives of any descriptionthey have a genuine place in the “replica/cosplay” genre’s and should get a pass. They regularly hit the top of the charts so taking them away is going to cause some distress from the land of the “free”. I think as usual the language in the terms are deliberately vague and reports are going to get passed on a lot. Functional firearms like the notorious one that pops up randomly here do get taken downthe issue for me is the ease at which they can be uploadedsurely some keywords or AI can be incorporated and trigger approval before its public.
“Dangerous” and “Harmful” in some cases can be totally relative but they won’t even take a buttplug down if the damn thing is gonna break off at the neck 
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edwin
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Can you use another color for the text on that page? It’s kind of hard to read for some people.
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Henlor
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Edit :
Oh! I got it nowyou’re talking about the text on this page : Community Guidelines - MakerWorld
Totally agreedthe grey text is a bad ideanot enough contrastit’s bad accessibility practice.
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I didn’t say they should be removedI asked if they were going to.
As you have saidthe details of these guidelines are vague at best.
If I had a voteI do not want them available unless they are fake. I come from a country that had a mass shootingacted on it and hasn’t had one since.
I used to shoot guns as a child at a gun range and I am old enough to have been able to buy guns at 14yesin the U.K.butthe trade-off for me isn’t worth it.
Spud gunswater blastersand disc shooters are all fun toysPlaying with a replica gun that a police officer thinks is real doesn’t fill me with joy. Too many police believe a finger is a gun.
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A fresh and current #8 rule breaker that is in the top 10 trending right now.
All pictures stolen from Cad-Guy right here on MW and 2 of the profiles uploaded by another user have no pictures.
Cad-Guy
MW will fail to deal with this as it is the same logic as example 5 in my Open Letter. A few downloads and MW throw all the rules out the window.
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I’m hoping by calling them out right hereright now they’ll do something. Even if it is for this only one despite there being dozens more who do the exact same thing.
The word from MW when they are Public Domain all bets are off and its free to copy/paste literally the whole thing.
My view on this is PD should be a no earn upload and no Boosts either. Stops the easy-money spammersand there’s plenty out there that don’t really contribute anything of value.
So how about updating this @MakerWorld ?
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Henlor
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I understand your point of view but that’s not a solution either IMO. You will also penalised people who genuinely gives their creation to the world :S
No penalty at allif you want to share there is no restriction added. The issue I feel happens where MW is encouraging people to “Make” and has implemented a reward system which is more than generous with that in mind. I see no benefit seeing a model which I can find on every other website uploaded repeatedly because PD allows it. Once yeaha dozen times a monthboring…
Totally within your right to add a fee to models somewhere other than MW if the original Design allows for it.
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