The Review System
This is part of the E-Hentai FAQ: Wiki Edition.
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General Overview
Not to be confused with the User Gallery's Rating System, the review system allows users to rate galleries on the main site on quality and content, as well as write a short commentary of the gallery. These commentaries are displayed on the gallery pages themselves. When rated, a basic summary (s set of 5 stars where 1 star is the lowest rating and 5 being the highest rating) will be viewable on the list pages.
The Anatomy of a Review Submission Page
To write a review you must click on the Link at the bottom of the gallery (or under the last review) entitled "Review this Gallery" (The opening image of this article illustrates this). You will be brought to a page with this form on it:
The bar on the top contain basic formatting, such as bold, italics, underlining, strike-through, superscript, subscript and quotes. These tags are the same tags that are used in online forums. Below that is where you type your review.
To the left are various categories in which you will rate the gallery from 1 (none) to 10 (extreme or "exclusively") on its contents. Whether these rating is based off of frequency or severity is up to the user, but it's recommended that when the manga has one or few stories, measure severity over frequency. When the manga has many stories, measure frequency over severity. The descriptions for each category are:
- Straight - Basic one-on-one heterosexual action.
- Group - Sex involving three or more parties.
- Yuri - Homosexual female action (Lesbian).
- Yaoi - Homosexual male action (Gay).
- Lolikon - Action involving early and mid teen female characters.
- Shotakon - Action involving early and mid teen male characters.
- Zoomorph - Action involving humanoid characters with animal or mystic traits.
- Creature - Action involving animals, creatures and other non-humanoid characters. (Tentacles fall under this category)
- BDSM - Action involving bondage, pain/mild torture, public humiliation and so on.
- Forced - Non-consensual action in different varieties.
- Extreme - Covers various special interest extreme classes such as guro, scat and so on.
- Futanari - Females with male genitalia (Dickgirls).
Underneath that are three quality categories: Art, Story, and Overall. These are rated by 1 to 5 stars in half star increments. Underneath that are two self explanatory buttons, the first is to preview your review, the second is to submit your review.
Review Requirements
Technical requirements for a review are as followed:
- The review must be AT LEAST 250 characters. Longer is better.
- You have to assign at least five points to content ratings.
- You must set a rating to each of the quality categories.
Writing Guidelines
Generally, to be accepted, a review needs to adhere to the following standards:
- Proper capitalization and punctuation.
- Decent spelling and grammar. We don't reject a review because of a typo or two, but if it looks like something written by a first-grader, it will generally not be accepted. Any of the violations on this list is an automatic disqualification.
- Try to include some actual non-obvious information. For example, if it's based on an anime (as is common with doujinshi), try to include which characters are featured and which pairings occur. Descriptions like "zomg i like this doujin" will generally not be accepted.
- Make sure to give it a reasonable content rating. This often means giving scores in several different categories. For example, even if a doujinshi features forced action, it's usually also possible to classify it as "Single" or "Group" (or both).
User Benefits and Review Voting
Depending on how many reviews have already been written for a gallery, a user whose review is accepted will be award a certain number of credits. If a user receives a number of credits less than the expected amount, it is most likely because someone else had already submitted a review, but that it had not yet been approved by one of the moderators.
| # of Reviews | Credits |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100 credits |
| 2 | 90 credits |
| 3 | 80 credits |
| 4 | 70 credits |
| 5 | 60 credits |
| 6 | 50 credits |
| 7 | 40 credits |
| 8 | 30 credits |
| 9 | 20 credits |
| 10 or more | 10 credits |
Users can vote a review up or down, both affecting its placement on the review list and the credits granted for the review. A positive rating will grant a user ten credits, while negative votes have no adverse effects outside of dropping the review towards the bottom.
- Note that you cannot vote more than once for a review, and you cannot vote for your own reviews. Attempts to bypass this are considered abuse of the credit system.
HentaiKey GT and the Review System
Due to various technical and legal reasons, as well as to comply with VISA regulations, the review system is unavailable for material accessed through a HentaiKey GT log in. Many words and phrases are banned from appearing on sites using services such as HentaiKey which makes it also difficult to comply with VISA regulations.
You can however access and write reviews for these items from the main server.
