Can I ban a user from downloading my models?
There's this one user who seem to have not exerted any effort calibrating his Ender 3 and had been rating models too low, e.g., one star, etc. This user only uploaded one model so far for download. I feel that we give so much power to these entitled downloaders that they expect the models they download to work for them and if not, they can just rate the model one (1) star. Considering that 99% of the people who downloaded my model were successful in printing and assembling except this one person who simply gave up immediately without detailing the issues he's having and then have the gall to rate the model one (1) star.
I would like to have the ability to ban this user from downloading my models coz chances are he/she would have the same issues and would rate my model too low again. While I know he/she is just one of the unhappy ones compared to a large number of downloaders who were satisfied, I still feel that it's unfair for downloaders to have this so much power with us the model creators doesn't have any ability to deal with such downloaders.
RE: Can I ban a user from downloading my models?
There's presently no way to ban a user from downloading your models. Considering you don't even need an account to download them, you wouldn't be able to stop them even if you could.
Banning a registered user from leaving reviews would also likely be abused because you could publish a garbage model and then ban anyone who's reviews you didn't like. Making your model seem better reviewed than it otherwise should be.
Unfortunately, it's all a double-edged sword.
Aaron
RE: Can I
Could you just add a note to caution about poor results with a junk printer?
Banning certain downloads is more restrictive could you print and post your great work to rebut?
RE: Can I ban a user from downloading my models?
Banning is a bit extreme, but maybe there could be an ability for the community to downvote reviews? You couldn't downvote reviews of your own parts, but if the community sees a poor/dishonest/dumb review and enough downvote it, once their rating drops too low, they can't post reviews anymore.