To go along with my last post, I visit a site/forum for the dolls to help me find new information about new dolls, new lines, etc. "Monster High Dolls" is one of the very FEW if not the only fan site out there for the dolls. It's the only site that really comes up. I tend to stay in the "Monster High Sighting" forum as there seems to be just to much drama in the others. You can get some helpful tips on making characters in the art sections and there is even a place to help you modify a doll. The people in those forums seem to be really nice. Another nice thing is that some of these members are even willing to help find dolls for you. Dolls that are currently hard to find, they'll try to see if any are in your area. While also giving links and helpful tips on finding them as well.
Yeah.
That one paragraph covers all the GOOD things about the site. How sad is that?
This place is jam packed with drama. Being that most of its population IS pre-teen and teen girls, the drama is horrendous. People are being accused of art theft and if not that, people are being accused of stealing their idea of a "monster parent" for their original character. That shit pisses me off. You can't stake claim on characters YOU DON'T OWN. You can't tell someone they can't use "Cookie Monster" as a parent because you already used him as a parent. You don't own Cookie Monster, you don't have the right to do that. If you don't have people complaining about their characters parents, you have people sitting their and bitching about the characters themselves. Throwing the "mary sue" term all around the place.
The moderators of the site are also hardly ever around. While a mod had a good reason why they were gone for a long time, the place still needs more ACTIVE mods. There needs to be mods for the chat as well since a ton of the young kids just loove to spam it up. Even the creator of the site itself is hardly ever on. This fan site is just one big hot mess. You also have some mods that cause a bit of drama themselves. While I understand you might be trying to cover your ass, you DON'T make topics about other members and then show screen shots of conversations between you and them. Although it seems they've stopped since then, it's still unprofessional of a mod to do something like that.
I've only been a part of this site since around maybe April and despite all the cons, the place is good for doll information. Although you'll have a few members try to bitch that the doll you have is "old news" and that they're tired of seeing topics for it.
Even then, the MH community isn't as horrible as the Sailor Moon or Zelda fandom seem to be about things. (I could probably write about that at some point. Maybe.) This site just needs to fix itself and some of the members need to grow up a little although I am amazed at how mature some 13 or so year olds seem to be nowadays.
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