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+Dear community, enthusiasts, users, and investors,
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+Six years have passed since my wife and me began working full-time on this project. During this time, I’ve meticulously read every forum post and Discord message, monitored every map pin (including 563 censored ones), and scrutinized every offer on the Bazaar. Beyond this, my daily tasks included investigating numerous related projects, damage reduction, migrating, and maintaining thousands of parts in the library, and continually enhancing designs to meet our customers’ evolving needs. Our interactions with hundreds of clients and Discord users have been guided by a commitment to providing the best support possible.
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+Despite all efforts and facts that have emerged, ‘Precious Plastic HQ’ and its selected beneficiaries have shown an excessively aggressive approach toward content creation and user relations, greatly disadvantaging users and investors. Over the period of the last 3 years, the project has seen a range of unethical practices, from defamation, indoctrination, unfair competition, Bazar ranking manipulation, exposure for freeloading, privacy violations, pay-or-else schemes, extensive censorship of differing opinions and issues, banning ‘misfit’ users across numerous Discord servers (owned and ‘moderated’ by Bazar sellers as well), the wrongful takedown of long-term vendors (ending often in bankruptcy) but also misleading users and investors with false statistics and claims, employing selective reporting and sensationalism, including instances of adolescents working in unhealthy conditions, and even injured soldiers used for marketing. Such actions have significantly compromised the integrity of communication and trade, favoring only a select few, showing no interests, respect, and involvement necessary to facilitate a smooth and supportive process for all participants. As a result, content creation, trade, and exchange have been restricted for everyone else, a trend reflected in the declining metrics as engagement, sales, innovation, and investment, particularly after the implementation of new and imposed measures in 2021.
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+Long-standing concerns such as educational value, viability and criticisms, but also proposals often ignored or censored, have highlighted the project’s deteriorating state. The severe and sometimes lifelong consequences faced by individuals, stemming from misleading prospects, hype and corrupt practices, cannot be overlooked. We’ve witnessed numerous bankruptcies among machine builders and regular users alike, leading to dire financial situations and the loss of hard-earned savings. The project’s designs, including commercial offerings touted as solutions for the waste problem, have proven immature and ineffective, yet they’ve been sold at unreasonable prices, often at the taxpayer’s expense. Furthermore, the very activities of the project have shown little to no benefit to the involved individuals, the surrounding community, or the actual issues we aimed to address. The term ‘Open Source’ has regrettably been used more as a marketing gimmick than as a means to foster collective growth towards a common goal. Credits of volunteer’s work have been claimed and being now used against the community. Crucial updates and documentation have been withheld for profit, leaving users and individuals exposed to potential legal challenges, especially regarding machine designs and molds. Even in developing countries, where the impact of the plastic problem is most acute, there’s been a noticeable lack of progress and support.
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+In light of these issues, I wish to stress the urgency of establishing a truly community-owned system that genuinely embraces fairness, honesty, and democracy. Such a system should encourage bounties and forge connections with both international and local markets, with the hope of attracting like-minded individuals who are eager to contribute positively once again.
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+In case you have spare time, these are the areas we could need a hand:
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+    Machine & Product Design - Solidworks (expert level)
+    Systems (Architecture)
+    Electronics (Micro-Controllers & PLCs)
+    Mechatronics (Robotics)
+    Polymer science
+    Software development (Typescript / C / C++ / CSharp and markup languages)
+    Business and legal matters
+    Media and content-related tasks (Library, Documentation)
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+And these options have proven promising and viable:
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+    Complete re-design of all machines, leaving nothing left to desire, modular, accessible, OpenSource - suited for education, lab & science, and small enterprises. Beyond designs, best practice guides, as well templates should be provided in a central pool.
+    Large scale printing
+    Custom machines and consultancy as a service (bounties)
+    Data acquisition (waste, services)
+    Furniture and larger objects (boats)
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+Please respond to this email directly. It has been sent to everyone on the map as well.
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+kind regards
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