Image Favorites

Posted 5 years, 1 month ago by Isoprene

Do you have image favorites enabled for your OCs?

103 Votes Yes!
9 Votes I do now!
2 Votes Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
4 Votes Not anymore.
27 Votes No, I don't really care about them.
1 Votes No, I don't want to get favspammed.
12 Votes No, for some other reason or reasons.

Image favorites are a really neat Toyhouse feature, I think, but it feels like I never see anyone use them. I follow a ton of people, including some really popular folks, but even with popular people it's a rarity for me to ever see anything higher than a 0 next to that lil star unless it's my own favorite! I'd say only about 1/3 of the people I follow even have them enabled in the first place, though; not sure if they're enabled by default or not, but it seems like the majority opinion on image favs is "nah."

So, I decided I'd ask about them! Did you even know image favorites existed? Why do you or don't you have them enabled? Why do you or don't you favorite images? Could the admins do something that would make you more interested in the feature? Here's some questions if you're like me and are a sucker for lists:

  • Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?
  • If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?
  • If you don't, why not? Are they not very important to you? Are you concerned about favspam? Do you feel weird getting favs on art you didn't draw?
  • Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?
  • Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?
  • How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?
  • Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?


  • Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?
I do! I... don't have much commentary here. I don't really worry about favspam because I find any favorites flattering, not to mention I'm poor and drawing is hard so my OCs tend not to have all that much art to favorite in the first place.   

  • If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?
Sure! Love seeing that lil heart icon, and it's always nice seeing cool art get validated! They're the least important interaction to me, but I still like seeing them!

  • Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?
Like I said, probably about 1/3? It feels like less than half for me, at least.

  • Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?
I do! I might not fav Everything I like if the gallery is large and I'm worried the user will get freaked out by the favspam, but if I see a nice pic with a lil star next to it you pet I'm gonna slam it!!

  • How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?
Favorites in general I feel mean something different for everyone, and I'm no exception! To me when I fav a profile I'm favoriting just that: the profile. Giving someone's character a favorite is less an indication that said OC is my favorite (though obviously I like most of the ones I read) and more an indication that I read and appreciated everything they put into that character. That's a big reason why I like image favorites! If I'm only interested in a character's design/art then I can use image favorites to indicate that, but if I like both their profile (if they have one) AND their design/art then I can emphasize that! They're also nice because if someone's updated an OC's profile I can go in and favorite an image (if anything's new) to be like "hey, I saw your notification and checked things out!"


  • Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?
I've used them since the start, but I feel like maybe more people would utilize them if there was a section on our profiles for image favorites as with character favorites maybe?? Or if people could go to their art tabs and sort by favorites to see what art of theirs is the most popular?? Or maybe individual character image favs since I don't think those are a thing yet; people might be worried about getting favspammed on characters with massive galleries and as such shut them down entirely even though they wouldn't mind getting image favorites on other characters. Or maybe it's just the weirdness of getting favs on things you didn't make and people would be into an option where you can only enable image favs for your OCs of your own art or something...?? I dunno! I'm curious to see what people think - that's why I made this thread, after all!
Caine

Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?

I do! Or so I think at least lmao 

If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?

Every fave is a donation to my serotonin bank but in all honesty OC faves > art faves any day, as I don't consider TH an art site as much as it's an OC site

Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?

I DON'T KNOW ACTUALLY but usually if I click to see the full pic they don't have them enabled so I'd say half or even more

Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?

Most of the time I forget the function even exists, and I usually don't even click on the art posted? And it's because for art I simply prefer to follow the artists on their dA/twitter/similar site so I have most likely seen and faved the art already elsewhere  

How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?

I just.... forget they exist really. And I feel weird faving stuff that isn't done by OP in the first place so I just don't. If I fave the character I might fave art too but never vice verse 

Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?

I'm not sure? Like I said, I view TH as an OC site and not really an art site per se so I don't really... know.... 

LadyLatias

Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?

I do~

If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?

Absolutely! I guess to me, it means that someone noticed the art I uploaded, and liked what they saw!

Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?

Seems like not too many people I follow had it enabled, so I've since really stopped looking for it, because it's usually never there. ^^; Though I would love to fave certain images!

Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?

I do! I hope it indicates to the user that I liked what I saw, too!

How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?

Normally I'll have the character faved too, but sometimes not. I'm a little picky about what I fave anyway, so I don't use it frequently, between that and most people I've encountered not enabling it.

Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?

I wish there was a place to view the images you've faved! So you can go back and enjoy them again later. (If there is such a place to access this, do let me know!)

Hag
  • Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?
    yaaaaaassss
  • If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?
    I really do! It interests me to see what people enjoy so much that they leave a fave, since its like you said, not a lot of people utilize the feature...
  • Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?
    Thinking about it, I usually see the majority of my watchers having them enabled (i follow almost 100 ppl). There's been times that I was shocked to see someone disable it, since i thiiiiiink? it's the default.
  • Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?
    oh gosh, i favorite something for all sorts of reasons. sometimes its 'cause the image was funny, sometimes its bc it is so skilled, sometimes its even because i just LOVE the character(s) depicted! ;v; and sometimes i don't fave because i feel like i will bug the owner of the image for spamming LOL (i only image fav-spam one person bc i know they appreciate it?? maybe?? lololo) but i do remember that lil button every time!!
  • How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?
    i will totally fav an image for any reason that feels right to me in the moment, there are times that i've realized way too late that i never had the actual character faved? but usually they're 1-for-1, i'll have the character faved and therefore i like the images in their gallery and want to fav them.
  • Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?
    it would be really cool if you could see who fav'd the image-- and if you could see what you had fav'd down the line (cause as it is rn it's just a little star button and not much else)... lol.
    i'm sure a feature that would take off would be something like: 'featured image' like how they used to do 'popular character' on the main page, but i'm.. kind of glad that's not a thing?? sometimes those 'featured' things can end up a little echo-chambery :|9 plus i do like focusing more on getting to the gristle of the character, on their info page/written text etc.
Pepperly
  • Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?
    I did, but not anymore.
  • If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?
    I did! 
  • If you don't, why not? Are they not very important to you? Are you concerned about favspam? Do you feel weird getting favs on art you didn't draw?
    Honestly the only reason I turned it off was because there was no way to browse favorites, and I got them very rarely except for my design sales, so it just seemed like a useless feature.
  • Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?
    I've honestly never noticed. 
  • Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?
    I forget it exists, shrug
  • How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?
    I'd do it for art that's outstanding? Probably, but again I don't think there's a way to browse faved images so it's only half a feature as is.
  • Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?
    Lemme browssseeeeee

Tegmelko
  • Do you have image favorites enabled for your characters?
    • Yep ! I think I've enabled everything on profile interaction !
  • If you do, do you enjoy receiving image favorites?
    • As much as character favorites, but so few people do that, in the end I don't really care. The only I got so far was accidental since the count stayed at 0
  • Roughly how many people you follow have image favorites enabled? Half? The majority? Hardly any of them at all?
    • Wow... honestly ? I have no clue ^^' I quickly checked and from the bunch I took, only one have it enabled.
  • Do you favorite images you like provided image favoriting is enabled? If not, what's holding you back?
    • No, not only because I forgot about it, but I think most people have it disabled and you can't keep track of your favorites anyway, so that a bit useless to me :/
  • How do you use image favorites? Are you picky about them? Will you favorite art without favoriting the character proper?
    • I don't really use it. I don't know
  • Could Toyhouse do anything to make you utilize image favorites more?
    • Give it a bit more importance maybe ? but as people before me said, being able to browse them and see who faved just like litterature and characters themself would be a step !
Seiden

I didn't even know this was a thing.

RustHeart

How do I even turn that on?

Hag

RustHeart settings→ interactions & alerts→ under the 'Profile Interactions' section (far right) there is a dropdown menu for 'Image Favs'

Isoprene

RustHeart Go to Settings, then Interactions & Alerts! There are a bunch of notification things you can change on the right side!

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edit: WHOOPS ninja'd haha

RustHeart

Thanks both of you!  I turned it on as well as image comments now.

Swissy

I enabled it out of curiosity (inspite me knowing that i'd probably never get any of my images fav'd haha-) But hey, i really appreciate it when someone fav one of my charas' image (It makes me wonder too on why would they favourite it   ) But i rarely use that feature. Either because i forgot it exists or the user doesn't enables it. I don't know how many people enables it n i don't mind it much