#csvent

I've gotten about 12 different "That was a joke" asks, and I'm not responding to all of them because it would just be the same ask being spit out for 2 days straight haha, but I do want to respond to this one and the (very few) other rude ones.

You are RUDE as fuck, for being snippy to someone for missing that it was a joke. First of all, April Fools is just not really a huge thing outside of the USA and adjacent countries, like in the country I grew up in, it was not a thing at all; I didn't learn about it until we had moved to the US. I still regularly forget it's a thing often right up till I see people talking about it either day of or right before, then go "oh yeah, that is today huh."

Second of all, there are indeed people with disabilities, that may have trouble remembering what day it is and/or differentiating joke from serious regardless of what day it is.

It's pretty shit to just quantify someone as "dumb as fuck" for not instantaneously calling out a prank, regardless of what day it is. You do not know their circumstance and why they did not immediately clock it as a prank.

Very annoyed to click that link and just see.. a big cccat. I have seen far more defined muscles on a few skires, including The Water Mentor, and I think its awful rude to call a body type you don’t like “fetishy”

Cut that shit out and let people draw unconventional body types without crying wolf over it

Istg if this shit turns into the trend of calling fat characters fetishy I will have a serious issue

I think it's ridiculous that people have forgotten that fiction is a safe space to explore your darker side, simply for the fact that its fiction. toyhouse allows everything that lusthounds is allowing, and lusthounds isn't allowing loli/shota/cub from the looks of it, which IS against toyhouse rules, so they're following toyhouses rules.

if you have an issue with ehat lusthounds is allowing, you also need to have an issue with toyhouse and it's rules itself.

noncon, incest, dubcon and all of that is all easily accessible in writing and books as well, and HIGHLY sought after, but I don't see that get the same censorship/hatred that users on toyhouse give to kink in artist adult spaces.

Lusthounds has maturelocked all their threads, they've clearly labeled their content and target audience with a disclaimer that states what they allow, and even have rules regarding how their kinks should be censored, which again fan be found in the disclaimer, AND on their community survey form, they ask for help regarding lore surrounding ace hounds in a primary sex centered community as well as transgender hounds in a species that can actively shape-shift.

I'd say they're doing a damn good job at making sure their community is safe and inclusive, and have made sure to warn people themselves about what their community allows. at this point, they're doing nothing wrong and are following all toyhouse rules. yall are just mad that they're allowing things you don't personally like.

you need to step up and take responsibility for curating your own space.

About me: I am not a member nor have I ever been a member of the Succubuns species, therefore I have nothing to lose if im somehow identified but I would prefer to remain anonymous. I have seen how succubuns has wronged its users in awful ways. I would like it to be publicly known that the species is an unsafe environment under the current moderators.

Feel free to send asks here in regards to the potential callout post.

The character has since been hidden or deleted. We aren't really sure. However, Angemo TOS states blacklisted users aren't allowed to make angemo designs. So what's the deal??

Calling someone a hoarder for enjoying a species and collecting characters is goofy. Just let them enjoy their ocs. There’s no need for backhanded jabs over it either. They put in time and/or money to get them, and that shouldn’t mean it’s your place to complain about them enjoying their comfort how you see it should be. There’s no “right” amount or way to engage with a species. Leave people alone and touch some grass if you think having many characters matters.

a small list of things that immediately turns me off from a cs, hopefully it's helpful!

-hard to read guides - be it because they're handwritten, or because they use a very fancy font, or because the text and the background is on are too similar in colour, if it's difficult to read people are Very unlikely to read it (avoid red on black, very light colours for the text, or very bright and saturated colours overall)

-too many traits for basic things - things like natural skin colours, eye and hair colours, shapes inside the eye, heterochromia, natural hair textures, scars and skin conditions, should never require traits imo. unnatural skin colours, colourful sclera, big sharp teeth, long or unusual tongues are common enough traits for species that it's fine to trait, but I've seen things like black hair textures, brown skin, albinism and vitiligo traited and that's just really shitty to do

-overly complicated rarity system - most people will be turned away if the trait rarity is hard to follow, most of the species I've been in have boiled it down to 3 categories (regular, seasonal, super special hard to get ones) tho it can def be done in other ways

-unclear rules, especially about nsfw - you don't have to have have nsfw (be that gore or sex) in your species, but you gotta be clear about it. For starters never treat nsfw like it means just sex. It stands for not safe for work and encapsulates gore, bodyhorror and sexual things, so if you're talking about just one of those, name them properly. Secondly, don't use vague language like "illegal" "immoral" "weird", it makes it sound like you're 12 and don't know what you're talking about. Say which specific country's laws you're following, list the things you allow/don't allow, or put a blanket ban on nsfw if you can't/won't deal with it. I've seen a species state in its rules that "nsfw prompts are allowed but discouraged" and good luck guessing what that means lol

-launching with a bunch of sales without the species being ready - listen I know we all gotta get that bag and half the point of a species is adoptables, but if half your guides/rules/faq aren't done, your website is missing most of its pages, you have like 3 prompts and maybe one page of lore but you're putting out sale after sale, the species is just gonna look like a cash grab. You have to have enough info up to draw people in and make it clear you're passionate about your species before you ask them to pay you for it. Since you say your species is lore heavy, this is even more important

-no resell policy or cooldown - if people are allowed to sell their characters regardless of how they got them with no limitations, I usually turn away. One time in a species like that I made a free custom for someone and a week later they turned around and sold it for over 100 usd and I will forever be mad about it. Likewise, if anyone can sell an (official) adopt as soon as they buy it, your species will quickly become breeding ground for flippers and scalpers and those always ruin the fun in getting adopts

as well as some advice - I know your species will be heavy on the lore but please know and accept many people will join without reading the lore at all. I will, bc I love reading lore, but many won't, don't let it upset you! In general you have to be prepared to deal with people that seem completely illiterate and unable to follow basic instructions. If you've ever worked customer service, you already know this haha</3

you can look at vent blogs, but you can't aknowledge them unless someone specifically brings them up to you. all cs players know that mods read the vent blogs, and mods know the players post on them, but nobody ever adresses it and I think that's for the best.

wishing you lots of luck with your species!

These are really good points - I do also want to add on piggybacking off the closer this anon made that very *rarely* can you please everyone. Even if you do all these things and more, there'll very likely still be a couple complaints about your CS. Don't bend backwards to a point you hurt yourself to try to please everyone: I Mean hey, we've seen on this blog alone some people have the complaint of "ugh xyz species has way too many trait options" while other people will complain "ugh abc species has way too few trait options", just for example. Some people LOVE tons of traits, other people HATE that.