Shame Thingiverse canāt simply create a label, such as āartā or ābot-createdā or whatever to allow the bot to continue making the mashups while also allowing regular users to sidestep bot-created (or similar) content.
And this statement,
ā¦is, to my way of thinking, not a rational thought.
They should have named it Hieronymus Botsch.
How do they decide whoās on the front page? First-come-first-served? Or does popularity matter? Because it sounds like the botās owners donāt feel like slowing down its output for the good of the order.
āI call this piece, āThis makes people want to punch me in the faceā.ā
Seems to me the robot is no better than malware. But I suppose some malware designers consider themselves artists.
OK, youāve got your 15 seconds of fame, for what? To piss off a bunch of 3D nerds? bravo
on the other hand it IS kinda cool in a obnoxiously dadaist wayā¦ maybe future games will troll the thousands and thousand or millions of mashups for junk to clutter up their current CoD title or VR thingee.
The āfront pageā of Thingiverse is not greatly impacted by the bot, despite what the story suggests. It does clutter the stream of designs, which, when one browses for new designs, are generally viewed in the order they were published (you can change the sorting, such as by popularity).
Honestly, though Iām as cranky a Thingiverse user as there is, the bot hasnāt troubled me much. (The fact that my designs are licensed in a way which makes them ineligible as DNA for the bot may be part of that.) So many designs are published each day, the fact that a number of them are made by this bot isnāt of much consequence. I would be annoyed if my designs were being used frequently and I kept receiving notifications, however.
The trouble this particular bot is causing is minor, in my opinion, and I never questioned the intentions of its creators. The next botā¦?
If it uses a widget to make a junk jumble, and later I am searching for the widget, and so I use [widget-name] in the search box, is the search going to return the junk as well as the widget?
Because thatās just pissing in the pool.
Thatās a valid concern, especially since Thingiverseās search doesnāt always work very well as it is. (In the past, Iāve had to resort to a site-specific Google search to find what Iām looking for.)
From the linked pageās FAQ:
ā Does Art belong in Thingiverse?
Yes, Thingiverse has an Art category. It is also well intentioned for art to be shown on platforms beyond art platforms to reach different audiences.
Bingo. And/or, as per @kongorilla, Thingiverse could change their default search to something other than order-of-creation, so the mashups wonāt clog the list.
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