Gallery Tagging

Tagging is a system of the E-Hentai Galleries to assist users in identifying the contents and properties of a gallery.

Usage Guidelines

Rule	Details	Examples / Exceptions
Presence	In general, do NOT tag something unless it has a fair amount of presence in a gallery. Anything found in only 1-2 images should almost never be tagged.	Example: 10+ out of 80 images or more than 25% would be sufficient for tagging, more so if they are sequential. See the talk page for further details. Exceptions: (See Here)
Formatting	Tags only allow for alphanumeric, spaces, periods, and hyphens. Tags must be at least 3 characters long.	Exceptions: 3d or anything with a namespace.
	Due to the technical limitation noted above certain terms are tagged differently then how they are normally written.	Example: The circle "#define" is tagged as "g:sharp define".
Conflicting	Tags such as futanari and yuri, cheating and netorare, or dark skin and tanlines do not go together as they are mutually exclusive; they can only be tagged if they both occur separately.	Example: 2 females having sex followed by a futanari having sex with a female would suffice for both tags.
Clothing	Costume tags such as schoolgirl uniform only apply if they are kept on (at least partially) during sexual activities. If they are absent or removed beforehand, they should NOT be tagged.	Exceptions: For non-pornographic galleries the clothing does not need to be removed in any way.
Visual	Nearly all fetish/content tags are based on visuals and not text (see the next rule for contextual tags). If there is any conflict between what is being said/acted and what is shown the visual wins.	Example: A girl saying she's old when she looks relatively young does not qualify for the milf nor old lady tags.
Contextual	Contextual tags do not require visual presence but must have dialogue/story presence. DO NOT tag them unless they are fairly obvious to a casual reader.	Example: A woman saying the man with whom she's about to sex is not her husband and then does so for several pages counts as cheating.
Namespace	Most fetish tags use either a female or male namespace to indicate which gender is being affected. For these purposes futanari and shemale are considered female.	Examples: m:glasses if a male is wearing them, f:glasses if a female is wearing them, etc.
New	The creation of new Fetish/Content tags is largely prohibited. Please use the forums to discuss any new tag possibilities. See the Tag Directory for existing tags.	Exceptions: Artist, Group, or Parody tags may be requested freely (with citations if possible).
Animal	All animal tags require that either an animal on animal, animal on furry, or bestiality tag is also present and valid.	Example: Two canines mating allows for the dog tag but two furry dog girls having sex each other does not.

Good Tags

Contents/Fetishes

As long as they are relevant sexually.

Languages

Should be tagged in their English equivalent (e.g. Spanish not Espanol).

Circles

Name of the circle(s) that published the work. Should NOT be added when they are not officially credited (e.g. most Manga).

Mangakas

Name(s) of the artist(s) who drew major parts or all of the work and were officially credited as such. Japanese artists should be written as Hepburn romanizations unless the artists themselves consistently spell them otherwise.

Original Series

Names of the series that appear or are being parodied. Parodies should be obvious and relevant (e.g. a cosplayer cosplaying as a certain character). Should be as specific as possible (e.g. dragon quest viii, not dragon quest) if the sub-series passes presence. A combination of images from different sub-series that passes presence (wherein the aforementioned sub-series do not pass individually) uses the generic parody.

Participants

Names of characters (or characters that a cosplayer is cosplaying as) participating in the gallery. Original characters (non-parodies) that do not exist outside of their own works should not be tagged.

• Non-H works may only have the most focused characters be tagged.
• Character names are preferred in full and in their western order (given name(s) followed by family name; e.g. hinata hyuga). There are rare exceptions.
• A character in costume is to be tagged with their alias (should they have one), otherwise use their real name; e.g. sailor mercury when she is transformed, ami mizuno when she is not.
• A genderbent character is preferred be tagged with their regular name. Exceptions apply to characters that act independent of their normal gender's persona; these include naruko and kyonko.
• A character with no official name may be tagged based on their relationship with another character; e.g. dexters mom from Dexter's Laboratory.^(Ref)
• Asian cosplayers' names are preferred in eastern order.

Information Sources

The information used to tag a gallery should almost always be based solely on the contents of the images in the gallery itself. The gallery's title or 3rd party sites do NOT qualify as sources in the majority of cases.

Exceptions:

• Artist name(s) may be gotten from a verifiable source if they are omitted from the gallery (e.g. galleries where only the circle name is used).
• The title may be used as proof of incest (unless the dialogue indicates otherwise).
• Parodies have all of their canon counted as existing information (unless the dialogue indicates otherwise).
• Participants' gender(s) being left extremely vague may use a verifiable source to identify them.

Know The Difference

For tags that are often confused for one another.

Bad Tags

Note: These are just a few examples.

• Location: forest, office, prison, school, space, virtual reality
• Meme: arrow to the knee, epic fail, lolwut, over 9000, pomf, sup mugi
• No Sexual Connection: celebrity, exercise, heels, microphone, pillow, swords
• Opinionated / Pejorative: cute, extreme, funny, gross, hot, garbage, nice tits, not bad, sad, scary, terrible, ugly, weird
• Technical: double pages, fanart, hi-rez, sketch, times new roman
• Too Common: anime, censored, japanese, long hair, nymphomaniac, semen, sex, skirt, softcore, straight, upskirt, vaginal
• Too Minor: (all eye colors), (all hair colors), heterochromia
• Too Vague: areola, ass, nipples, pussy, shaved, wet
• Requests: decensor request, more please, need english, torrent plz, translation wanted
  • Requests should be made on the forums, not via tags.

Categories

Category tags should only be used to change an improperly categorized gallery. Once such a tag receives 100 power the category will switch to that of the tag. If two of these tags are present (which means one of them is incorrect and should be downvoted) the one with the higher power will be used.

Bad Variables

Conventions

Can be in the gallery's name, but not a tag. The most recent Comiket is given a temporary exception for 30-60 days.

Dates, Years

The month and year of publication can be in the gallery's name for anthology releases.

Publishers, Websites

Do not actually produce the content. Rare exceptions apply if no other names that can be used to identify a work's creator.

Resolutions

This is technical and not helpful for searches.

Scanners, Translators

They do not produce the content.

Software

The tools with which the artist created the content are irrelevant.

Title

The title of a gallery is NOT something to be tagged unless it is otherwise an already appropriate tag.

Writers

Not to be confused with the artist(s).

Do Not

• Use Cosplay-only tags (hardcore and non-nude) on non-Cosplay galleries.
• Use language tags for anything other than indicating a gallery's text.
• Use a language tag on an imageset gallery unless a vast majority of it (75%+) contains text in that language.
• Tag mother when not in conjunction with incest. This includes women giving birth, women who happen to have children, or milfs.
• Use negative tags like "not futanari". Users who disagree with a tag should vote it down and post in this forum thread.
• Use the cosplay tag when characters in drawn works are cosplaying as other characters; use cosplaying instead.
• Combine tags (e.g. "furry yaoi"). Each tag should be separated by a comma. This also includes artist/circle names or character pairings (e.g. "naruto x hinata").

Temporary Tags

Please do not vote up tags of a temporary nature if they are already present. These include:

• incomplete
• out of order
• Category tags
• Convention tags
• Expunging tags for galleries which may be updated/de-expunged

Rewards

Tagging earns points toward a toplist position and the rewards that come with it.

Poor use of tags may result in the user losing power and heavy misuse will result in the user being power banned altogether.

Tagging Mechanics

For further details about tags and advanced usage.

Exact Tag Searching

Searches for certain tags can return results from more tags than intended. This happens to tags that appear as partial strings inside longer tags.

Example: The tag f:cat will match cat, catgirl, human cattle, etc. (but not scat or petrification). This also impacts slave tags; a search for f:anal may return a gallery tagged with sex toys. This happens because the search for anal matches "anal beads" which is slaved to sex toys.

To avoid this users may search with a dollar sign at the end of the tag to search only for that string (e.g. f:cat$, f:anal$, etc.)

Tagging Hotkeys

The following hotkeys can be used when a tag is selected.

Function	Hotkeys
	Numpad	Other
Show All Tagged Galleries	4	A
Show Tag Definition	6	D
Vote Up	8	W
Vote Down	2	S
Clear Selection	5	Spacebar

Tag History

Users can check their own tag history (up to the last 1,000 actions within the last 30 days) and accuracy rating via this tool:

http://g.e-hentai.org/tools.php?act=taglist&uid={USER}

• Replace {USER} with the numeric forum ID (users can find this by clicking their own name at the top next to the "Logged in as" text).
  • Example: Snowflake would use the URL http://g.e-hentai.org/tools.php?act=taglist&uid=5
• Note that accuracy score calculations are delayed by 3 days (same as toplist calculations). Further accuracy checks take place to ensure a tag vote remains correct.
• The numbers next to each tag indicate the power the user utilized for that action.
• "Total Tagcount" includes all tagging actions. This includes tags that do not count towards the user's accuracy.
• "Started" indicates accuracy for tags the user added themselves. "Voted" indicates accuracy for existing tags upon which the user voted.
  • N/A indicates that the user needs more votes for the system to calculate their accuracy.
• Gallery and tag moderators may check all users' and tag histories.

See also

• Fetish Listing - A list of all official fetish tags based on their area.
• Toplists - Tagging
• Gallery Categories‎
• Technical Issues - Gallery Tagging

Forum Links

• Forum: Tagging and its abuse - Please report any bad tagging here.
• Forum: General tag discussions