Gallery Commenting

Galleries may be commented on by users, often to provide information or to indicate their likes and dislikes of the gallery's contents. The gallery's description is placed at the top of the comments section and cannot be voted on.

Properties

• Can use the following BBCode:
  • Bold, Underline, Strike-through, and Italic.
  • URL for forums or gallery links only.
• Can be freely edited at any time (see below for limits).
• Are listed in the order depending on your My Settings choice (chronological, reverse chronological, or power).

Voting

Users may vote (and revote) on other users' comments. Votes and comments are subject to mod power and comments are hidden if they fall below -50. Users may not vote on comments if they have commented on the same gallery; existing votes will be removed upon making a comment.

• Black text means the user has not voted on this comment.
• Blue text means the user has chosen this option.
  • Clicking on it will withdraw the vote. Picking the other option will withdraw the vote and cast a new, opposite vote.
• Red text and no score means the vote is invalid because of a server response error and did not get through.
  • Check the technical issues article.

Comment votes are always listed in chronological order.

Limits

• Users may make multiple comments in a gallery but multiple consecutive comments will be automatically appended to each other.
• Like tagging votes, mod power is computed at the time of voting and does not change unless another vote is cast by the user.
• Only the first 13 users will have their name displayed next to their vote to save space. Additional users are hidden (and [votes-13] others...).
  • Casting a new vote or removing one's vote can change this.
• Comments may not be deleted.
• Comments may not be searched (it is possible to use a third party search engine instead).

Hidden Comments

• By default (oldest-first view) only the 45 highest-scoring and 5 most recent comments will be shown. Other settings will show the top 50 comments depending on the setting chosen.
• Comments become hidden if they fall below -50 mod power.

Hidden comments can be made visible by adding "?hc=1" to the end of the URL or by clicking on "There is/are x more comments below the viewing threshold - click to show all." link at the bottom of the comments section.

Perma-Hidden Comments

Comments become permanently hidden if they reach -100 mod power or exceed -50 if the gallery's owner is one of the downvoters. These comments cannot be made visible again.

• The uploader's mod power no longer counts towards this to prevent chilling effects from gallery uploaders with very high mod power downvoting user comments on their own galleries.

Tips

• Comments should generally be informative, insightful, or humorous.
  • Examples: Listing artist names for images (e.g. for Anthologies), linking to more information about the content (such as the artist's website), posting where it is possible to purchase the content, etc.
• Gallery uploaders should generally keep their comments in the uploader field.
• It is advisable to update comments if they become confusing / irrelevant (e.g. Pointing out images that are forbidden content but then the owner removes them).

Do Not

• Ask for translations, raws, decensoring, torrents, [re-]seeding of torrents, or additional images. Please contact the gallery's uploader directly or make a bounty depending on the request.
• Post irrelevant comments to the gallery or site, regardless of reason.
• Post about having added a torrent to the gallery; this is already listed on the gallery's information (top-right area).
• Make highly generic comments such as "I like this" or "Thanks for uploading"; while courteous these are generally not helpful or unique to the gallery. More in-depth comments are much more appreciated.
• Make minor comments on nearly every gallery viewed. This can be seen as an attempt at "point whoring" for the toplist and may result in a ban.
• Use the comments section for discussions; use the forums instead.
• Comment on any technical issues experienced; these are better handled on the forums.
• Encourage the upvoting of false tags (or the downvoting of valid tags), false expunges, or false renames in any way. This may result in a ban.
• Post gibberish or irrelevant URLs. This may lead to a ban.
• Intentionally abuse or harass other users for any reason. This can quickly lead to a ban.

Navigation

At the end of a gallery's URL simply add #ulcomment to the end to go to the uploader's comment (aka the description) or #comments/#cnew to go the comments section.

Rewards

Making and voting for comments (as well as having one's comments voted up), along with rating galleries, rewards points towards the Rating & Reviewing Toplist. There is a limit of 10 comment votes per day that award points. Users whose comments are upvoted receive points basically equal to the sum of the votes made on their comment (the user's base power does not count). Short comments receive no points even if they are upvoted.

See also

• Gallery Rating