Prusa Badges and Rewards... What you want to know!  

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Will the 2x Prusament spool voucher return?

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The Prusament ASA option is also gone from the available list of rewards - why?

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Sorry I was a bit careless with my screen shot.   The full post reads:

Due to low stock of nearly all Prusament materials & colors, we have temporarily disabled the vouchers for 2x and 3x Prusament spool, plus the ASA voucher from the Printables reward system. We'll bring them back, once Prusament manufacturing catches up a bit with the demand.

Posted on Twitter 22 January.

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Found the post on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/printablescom/status/1749407665204191587

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Keep it up!

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to learn more about Prusa Badges and Rewards! Are there different tiers? What activities earn badges? How do rewards enhance the user experience? Let's dive in and uncover the benefits of this incentivized system for Prusa enthusiasts.

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uncover the benefits of this incentivized system for Prusa enthusiasts.

I suggest grabbing the hot end of the extruder when it's set to 200C and hold it until you smell bacon cooking. That would be more beneficial than this "reward" program.

to learn more about Prusa Badges and Rewards!

Like - how to get rid of the entire system?

Are there different tiers?

Yes:  Gullibe newbie, Filament wasting idiot, Spammer of a million virtually identical worthless prints for upload points and several even lower grades.

What activities earn badges?

Printing badges.

How do rewards enhance the user experience?

They don't.  They encourage abusers to pollute the database making it even harder to find designs worth downoading and reinforcing the popular misconception that 3D printing is all about wasting plastic on trinkets. 

As a result of this incentivisation many of us have given up uploading designs.  It can take months, even years, to fully test and refine a design, it then takes days, perhaps weeks to write, user test and refine the build instructions.  Uploading takes a few minutes then in half an hour the work is buried too deep for any but the most obsessive searcher to find it.

The only use, now, for Printables is as a repository if you wish to link outsiders to your work without having to set-up the download.

Cheerio,

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About spammers, yesterday I was looking for some models tagged as gridfinity and noticed quite a lot of prints totally unrelated to gridfinity. After checking I noticed they belong to the same person, checking one model revealed that the model had huge amount of random tags added just to increase search results...

How this should be handled, just report the models or the user?

By all means report both, better though would be to request deletion of everything uploaded since mid December 2021.

Cheerio,

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Hi everyone, recently I payd attention at the badges available for download, and since I recently got a multicolor 3D printer, I thought of printing my own. But some time ago, I think I clicked one and then must have lost or thrown it away,  not knowing they could only be downloaded once. Is there a way to re-download the one I lost? Also, it seems that Professional designer and Professional Maker are the same thing as I think one overwrote the other. So I actually I just have one of my three main badges. 

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They can be downloaded as often as you like, but not every level has a badge...
For designer there is only a level 5 badge. You can access the level 5 model by clicking on "Scarica badge 3D".

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Thanks for your reply, now I see: there aren't badges from a specific level onwards, but just for some of them, in no particular order! 

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One of the big issues for non-Europeans with the prusameters rewards* is that the shipping cost is so high it isn't worth redeeming them unless you have thousands available (and then only if Prusa would allow multiple redemptions with a single shipping charge).  I would expect this is causing many to not bother posting makes and designs in Printables, or at least reduces the motivation.

Could Prusa implement the rewards and ship from their newly-acquired USA location?  I would expect this to be much more affordable for at least some people, and might increase the participation rate in printables.

(*) many other issues noted in this discussion topic totally ignored here