How do you feel about TH forum?

Posted 18 days, 11 hours ago (Edited 13 days, 6 hours ago) by Skykristal

TH Forum Opinions

As a forum user I'm curious how y'all feel about the forum. Generally. The topics being posted, responses, vibe etc. Share your thoughts with me!


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I wanted to add my own opinion to the box as well. I will talk a lot about different sub-forums and stuff. Split everything into sections so its easy & you can read what interests you. PS: you by no means have to write your thoughts as detailed as I did here, but maybe it's giving you some ideas on what to talk about, if you wish.

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Character Discussion

Awesome subforum I really like to share my characters in, fun threads to join. The show me threads related to milestones about characters are my favorite (e.g most images, favorite gallery, most loved oc...) I also like assign threads quite a bit, if the theme interests me. And the few general topics, you know actual DISCUSSION is awesome too. It's rare however, but I often like to start such threads, and its nice that people join.

Way too many RP threads (interact with___). One person started this, and everyone followed. As someone who doesn't do RP, this is just spam I have to block daily. This is really the only major dislike I have though. Used to be fav for fav, but it got solved a while back.


Creators Corner

Most underrated forum out of all, which is so sad to me. I check this sub daily, looking for some sharing, discussion and interesting topics. I love the general questions and opinion threads a lot. As well as art related sharing topics. Showing off specific pieces we have done, improvements, styles, redraws... the list goes on. Just awesome to use and to browse and read!

And here comes the bad part. There is so much I hate about this subforum, or well the people in there, which includes 200 LF friends threads and discord ads. I could write a whole book about my thoughts with this but I'm just leaving it at that. I can't wait for Artfight to start again so we have 200 more art fight threads there of the same thing everyone needs to make.


Forum Games

By far the best quality subforum, generally. The people there are amazing, the atmosphere is amazing. One of the places to be on this site tbh. Had lots of fun in it already. And people actually pay attention to thread descriptions there. I am so used to being looked over in any other sub, that it's sometimes hard for me not to overdue rules or highlighted text. I don't play games daily, but its always fun to go back to! And I love that my own games are played and often bumped as well!

You occationally have black sheeps. The type of people who don't give a fuck, don't read, don't or can't put in effort and join regardless. Takes the fun out of everything when such a person claims you. I started blocking freely...


General and Off-topic

I like this forum mainly because of how active it is. You always have something to read or think about when you're bored. I like the topics for the most part. Always fun to join and write in. Seeing the same people all the time is also nice, feels like a little clique lol.

Too much bullshit. The bulletin type of stuff, very personal life stories or none sense threads about no topic at all that's just spam. Its getting out of hand at times. There's also some discord ads I constantly block as well. Out of all the sub forums, this has the most shit by far, its not surprising considering there is so much activity. But most things don't need a thread, not even remotely. If you wanr to share your socks, go to the comment thread. But if you want people to share their favorite socks, make a thread! Common sense... kinda.. imo..


Help & Questions

Yeah, I actually browse this forum often. Because I like helping out, or joining a discussion. As well as sharing my questions on occasion I'm curious about. Its one of these subs that feel quite nice. Aside from the echoing (repeating the same thing that was said 40 times before without adding anything new), its a good place to be and get help.

Commission pricing spam. I understand struggling with your work, but the amount of commission threads is hella annoying, to the point it seems more like an ad because you drown everywhere else. It wouldn't surprise me if some people use this tactic.


Bugs & Suggestions

I don't have nice things to share about that one... The opinions shared there are pretty toxic and unfriendly. People also have really strange takes on suggestions sometimes when they disagree to something, rather that just staying neutral... The stuff where you go "only on toyhouse 🙄 logic" in your head. hm.. not my favorite section of the site. I don't check it too often for that reason too


General opinion

I enjoy the forum for the most part. Otherwise, I wouldn't use it. However no matter the subforum (some better than others tho) there is a general detail that kinda kills the fun for me, especially as a thread starter. And that is off topic responses, echoing (I dont mind this all the time) or responses by those who don't even have any opinion and nothing of substance to share. Like.. nobody forces you to post, please move on. I didn't mind this the first few times, but after a while it got annoying. I don't really want to start much discussion anymore lately. Especially when I am curious about a specific thing and everyone answers stuff I never asked. I actually stopped looking at responses when I do poll threads. Because I care about the specific options I wrote and its the reason I started the thread. To the few people who actually get the topic of the thread or even talk to me directly, I see you. Thanks for caring about it!

The statement "The userbase is anti-social" is somewhat true. It highly depends on with whom you interact and what you post. I had lots of really enjoyable convos here before. Sometimes I have convos daily even. But you actually need to care and want to interact. Otherwise, yes it IS. It kinda applies to any space though. But please don't complain about it if you never put in the slightest effort. If you do, that's a different story. Like I said, TH being anti social is somewhat true. Some users here to don't give a fuck to respond to you. Heck some users can't even thank you. The most simple thing one can do.

Vallien_Fulki

am mainly in General and Creator's Corner so I don't really have much issues with people
in General and Creator's Corner I like seeing threads that spark convos like this one, is often interesting with what people say in them

Sadismancer

It's not too bad a place, really. I've seen worse, but seen better.

Pastafang

That's such a broad question, it's difficult to answer... I don't think the forums themselves are inherently good or bad, it all depends on the users, the community. And well, different subforums seem to have different communities, different regulars, different vibes. And then of course a lot depends on the topic of a thread it's self.

But overall, for the most part, I do think the forums are cool and fun. Evidently, considering I spend a lot of time here (even if it's mostly just lurking). Lots of people are very nice, and it's cool to connect with a community of people who share the same niche interest in OCs.

Yeah sure, it may not be perfect. Sometimes negativity and drama pops up, but it's easy to ignore and move on.

Tewro

i'm with sadismancer on this one haha, not the worst forums i've been on but far from the best too (´꒳`∗) being able to block threads is a godsend tho

Polar-Tang

Posting in the TH forum feels like screaming into the void more often than not.

cat-astrophism

the forums i poke around in are all fine i feel like for the most part at least, there are some that are Strange n whatnot but not as bad as some stories ive heard about other places fr lol. other than that i enjoy em they can be fun

RadiantzRain

I don't mind it here though I do kinda get anxiety from it. I've seen worse places however

Character Discussions is nice however, I like it on there

apodoforcas

definitely better than the last forum place i ran from imo

basically there’s a lot of positives but also a good amount of negatives

CRAWSMOST

always considered the forum as the "RUN DO NOT ENTER IN YOUR LIFE" buuuuuuuuuut i now use it sometimes to kill off time. welp. i don't love it but i don't hate it either. i just talk

SherbetToons

I only rlly use Character Discussion and General & Off-Topic, the former is a good way to find cool OCs and have your ones gain more reach

General & Off-Topic, I'm not going to generalise as being completely bad, but due to it being the most frequently used forum, the lack of site moderation tends to seep through here the most. 

I find that the vast majority of posts in this section of the forum are either advertisements in some way, vents of very personal information, or the same few heated topics being brought up over and over again (blocking discussions, proship discourse, etc) 

This is all probably something that would be a lot less evident if ToyHouse was well-moderated

zidanetribal

puts my social anxiety into overdrive in most cases but i do like to post about my little guys so theres that i guess. definitely not the worst i have been in but i do wish it were more moderated around here :,)

Kawaiimarshmallowkit

If you think Toyhouse forums are bad, you don't wanna see what the forums on MovieStarPlanet are like. I couldn't post to those forums without getting bullied by at least one person every single time. ;-;

Seriously though, there are some bad things about Toyhouse forums, but there's also good things. Despite the bad, I still feel more comfortable posting to TH forums than any other website forums. Maybe I'm a little too comfortable in these forums, because I remember saying some really stupid and cringe stuff before lol!

insomnimac

I’m a total forum lurker (you’ve probably seen me if you’ve ever stepped foot in the G&OT sub-forum). I feel like most of it is pretty tame, but some threads and comments are off the deep end. The fact that there are so many threads that should be mature-locked and aren’t is worrying, especially the ones in the Service Review sub-forum. 

The Service Review sub-forum is something else, to be honest. A lot of the threads don’t even follow the rules of staying neutral and business-oriented or even civil. Half of the threads listed could suffice as a simple bulletin or be solved through 1 on 1 contact. 

The lack of moderation is probably the biggest issue of the forums. 

PainterFight

I've lurked in different forums other than this one, and I'll echo what the other's have said above; this forum isn't too bad per se, but it's not quite the perfect community either.

I'm now more of a General and Off-Topic (and even Species Discussion) kind of guy. But I do like popping into Forum Games and Character Discussion now and then like I have nothing else to do. Though, I feel like Creator's Corner is honestly underrated and I wish people didn't mainly use it to promote their discord server, raffles and such.

Overall... yep. kind of a mixbag lol