Since there are some new community achievements I thought some site changes would also help the use of the community section of ToyDemon
1. Clicking the discuss on the top bar should open https://www.toydemon.com/community/
Really simple one! The other tabs, Masturbators, Other Toys, Lotion, etc open their respective link, except the discuss tab, which doesn't open anything yet.
2. Reorder with Hot Topics at the top for the sidebar or change criteria of Featured Topics?
For as long as I can remember, all 5 of the featured topic posts have been official ToyDemon posts, some very old. While it does make sense that those posts have the most traction, I feel whatever criteria that's set right now makes it really difficult for any normal user topic to reach featured topics if it's not manually set
3. Onahole rating + sorting (or allowing empty 'reviews') Less community more Site-wide
Basically something like mark an onahole "owned" and give a rating 1-10. Averages the ratings from all users, and adding several top onaholes pages such as Top All Onaholes, Top Hips, Top Torsos, etc
This one requires more explaining but some bullets are
- More people are likely to rate than write a whole review, I'd probably rate all the onaholes I own just to see which I really like best.
- A list of top rated onaholes ranging from hips, torsos, and normal onaholes would make it easier to find new onaholes
- Currently sorting by rating just floods the page with onaholes with a 5 star reviews given by 1 person (also there may be a bug with changing the sorting option since it took about 10 tries for sorting by top rated to work)
- Reviews are really skewed towards the best selling products with the most reviewed product getting more reviews, while niche products get stuck with a single 5 or 1 star review for a long time
- Empty reviews is essentially the easy solution instead of making a whole new system, but would require changes to reward stuff
- Could allow others to see your ratings, so certain people with similar tastes can use other users ratings for suggestions on what to try next
= tl;dr - Ratings for Onaholes + Top Onahole pages like certain anime and movie sites have rankings/lists for the best/most popular/etc, easier to give a 1-10 or 1-5 rating than to write out a whole review, allowing more ona's to get a proper / more accurate rating
While I do have some more suggestions, I'll just summarize some random ones to wrap up. Options like bold, italics, maybe images for posts. - Images could be abused... But there is a section for Guides here, which would normally be an upvote farming zone in most discussion boards, but it's pretty hard to read blocks of text without bold or images highlighting the important details, as this post might suggest. There's also the whole TD blog part of the site which has it's own guides. Moving blogs into community could help de-clutter, and give a smooth transistion for new users from official guides to community stuff. Subsections for hips / torsos under onaholes? Circling back to images, posts with images usually tend to be the most popular on discussion boards. Some stuff to the side of the home page could help direct people to the community section.
All in all, the new community achievements are great and really incentivizes using the community section, but there also isn't as much activity as I would have expected for 4 days since the community achievements announcement. I think just a few more changes could help boost it's use, just my two cents though.
1. Clicking the discuss on the top bar should open https://www.toydemon.com/community/
Really simple one! The other tabs, Masturbators, Other Toys, Lotion, etc open their respective link, except the discuss tab, which doesn't open anything yet.
2. Reorder with Hot Topics at the top for the sidebar or change criteria of Featured Topics?
For as long as I can remember, all 5 of the featured topic posts have been official ToyDemon posts, some very old. While it does make sense that those posts have the most traction, I feel whatever criteria that's set right now makes it really difficult for any normal user topic to reach featured topics if it's not manually set
3. Onahole rating + sorting (or allowing empty 'reviews') Less community more Site-wide
Basically something like mark an onahole "owned" and give a rating 1-10. Averages the ratings from all users, and adding several top onaholes pages such as Top All Onaholes, Top Hips, Top Torsos, etc
This one requires more explaining but some bullets are
- More people are likely to rate than write a whole review, I'd probably rate all the onaholes I own just to see which I really like best.
- A list of top rated onaholes ranging from hips, torsos, and normal onaholes would make it easier to find new onaholes
- Currently sorting by rating just floods the page with onaholes with a 5 star reviews given by 1 person (also there may be a bug with changing the sorting option since it took about 10 tries for sorting by top rated to work)
- Reviews are really skewed towards the best selling products with the most reviewed product getting more reviews, while niche products get stuck with a single 5 or 1 star review for a long time
- Empty reviews is essentially the easy solution instead of making a whole new system, but would require changes to reward stuff
- Could allow others to see your ratings, so certain people with similar tastes can use other users ratings for suggestions on what to try next
= tl;dr - Ratings for Onaholes + Top Onahole pages like certain anime and movie sites have rankings/lists for the best/most popular/etc, easier to give a 1-10 or 1-5 rating than to write out a whole review, allowing more ona's to get a proper / more accurate rating
While I do have some more suggestions, I'll just summarize some random ones to wrap up. Options like bold, italics, maybe images for posts. - Images could be abused... But there is a section for Guides here, which would normally be an upvote farming zone in most discussion boards, but it's pretty hard to read blocks of text without bold or images highlighting the important details, as this post might suggest. There's also the whole TD blog part of the site which has it's own guides. Moving blogs into community could help de-clutter, and give a smooth transistion for new users from official guides to community stuff. Subsections for hips / torsos under onaholes? Circling back to images, posts with images usually tend to be the most popular on discussion boards. Some stuff to the side of the home page could help direct people to the community section.
All in all, the new community achievements are great and really incentivizes using the community section, but there also isn't as much activity as I would have expected for 4 days since the community achievements announcement. I think just a few more changes could help boost it's use, just my two cents though.
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@ErosDesu I agree with all of these. I think that the rating system TD has really emphasizes good reviews, but a lot of less bought products could be found easier with a rating-only system.
I have also had issues with sorting, but it never lasts permanently. Maybe reload or try a different browser?
Overall, very good suggestions. The lack of discuss link has bugged me for a bit.
I have also had issues with sorting, but it never lasts permanently. Maybe reload or try a different browser?
Overall, very good suggestions. The lack of discuss link has bugged me for a bit.