Slop or not?

Slop is a template that shouldn't be listed: made in bulk or in a hurry, often by AI, with little care for whoever buys it. Not your style isn't slop.Take back your last call or skip and bring that card back. Backspace works too.Not sure? Skip it: no call is saved, and it may come round again another day.Made with care and works as its pictures show, whether or not it's to your taste.

Slop is a template that shouldn't be listed. Not your style isn't slop. What counts as slop?

Called
0
Slop
0
Not slop
0

Your calls are saved, but only calls from accounts hide anything, so a crowd of strangers can't bury a good template or save a bad one. Anyone's call is saved and counted here. Only calls from accounts a day old or more decide what the filter hides, so a crowd of throwaway visitors can't bury a good template or save a bad one.

Sign in

Drag the card, or press ← for slop, → for not slop, ↓ to skip and ⌫ to undo; after a slop call, 1–6 say why.

Looks good in a thumbnail. But would you buy it? Call Framer and Webflow templates one at a time. Enough calls from accounts take slop off Toolzilla for everyone.

What counts as slop

A thumbnail can hide a lot. Open the preview. Look for pages that work, copy that says something and a layout someone has checked on a phone. Slop is work made in bulk or in a hurry, often by AI, with little care for whoever buys it. Toolzilla hides it by default. Your calls help decide what stays.

Six ways to waste a buyer’s afternoon

It's AI slop
Generated filler nobody edited: stock AI copy and pictures, sections that say nothing, a layout no one designed.
Broken or unfinished
Pages or sections missing, layouts that fall apart on a phone, links and forms that go nowhere, placeholder text left in.
Low effort
A starter kit's defaults under a new name: a page or two, no real design decisions, nothing worth what it costs.
Copy of another template
Another template's design, or a close knock-off of it, listed as new.
Preview doesn't match
The pictures promise more than the template has: mock-ups, pages or effects that aren't in it.
Spam or duplicate
The same template listed again under another name or colour, or a listing there only to farm clicks.

Care, not taste

Slop
A polished mock-up. The actual page is broken.

Not slop
A plain page. Everything it promises works.

Give these a fair hearing

  • Not your style. Pass it in Taste instead, which learns from passes. Slop is about care, not taste.
  • Simple or minimal. A one-page template that does its one page well is fine.
  • Free or cheap. The price doesn't make slop; the care does.
  • Made with AI's help. The tool isn't the problem; nobody checking what it made is.
  • Older. A look that has dated but still works isn't slop.

How calls become the filter

Every call is saved, and a template's page shows how many call it slop once a few have. A template leaves the site when enough calls from accounts a day old or more agree, with confidence, that it's slop. A creator whose judged templates are mostly slop is flagged, and the rest of their templates leave too, all but those called not slop with the same confidence. Calls from accounts that keep disagreeing with our own reviews stop counting, and signed-out calls never hide anything, which makes verdicts harder to manipulate. Our own reviews can override calls. The filter updates every 15 minutes.

Think we got one wrong?

A hidden template keeps its page, which says why it's hidden. Call it not slop there, or here when it comes round again: about one card in ten is a template the filter hides, so a wrong verdict gets called back.