Galleries

This is part of the E-Hentai FAQ: Wiki Edition.

General Overview

The E-Hentai Gallery System is one of the core systems of the E-Hentai site, where users are able to contribute their own material in the form of one or more User Galleries. A user can upload private and public galleries of hentai and anime-related content, which they can use on the E-Hentai Forums and other sites and forums in order to easily to maintain and share content with other people.

Sharing content can be done independently on the particular forums and sites on which a user wishes to do so. The system can generate BBCode and CSS-skinnable HTML for direct inclusion as external galleries, and can also host a customizable gallery for the user locally. All that is need for this is to register for a E-Hentai Forums Account.

Site Ads in the Gallery System

The User Galleries, by default, have up to four ads of mixed type and content on the main page, and two when viewing a gallery. The locations of these ads are on the top and bottom of the page, and two on either side of the gallery search box, of which the top and bottom ads are persistent throughout the gallery system.

These ads can be disabled through gallery settings, of which you must have a Silver Aura or the Hath Perk Ads-Be-Gone.

Rules of Engagement

Allowed Material

Users are allowed to:

Post any kind of gallery featuring exclusively drawn characters of any kind, including anime-style drawings and American-style cartoons, both pornographic and non-pornographic. Extreme stuff like BDSM and guro is allowed, but please mark the gallery appropriately in the title.

Post real porn that complies with US law.

Prohibited Material

Users are NOT allowed to:

Post any kind of risqué or pornographic material that contains real people who are or appear to be below the age of 18 (even if they are just "slightly younger"), nor galleries that claim to contain this kind of content (using keywords like "Lolita", "preteen", "incest" or derivatives even if they do not contain this). This includes underage "models" who do not engage in actual sexual activity. ANY KIND OF ILLICIT ACTIVITY INVOLVING CHILDREN WILL BE REPORTED.

Post any depictions of real people that can be considered "obscene" under US law. This includes extreme BDSM, bestiality, scat, and other stuff that is way "out there". Posting this material will be reported and removed, and the uploader may suffer consequences.

Post any kind of "virtual" (that is, computer-generated/rendered) material that violates the principles above, or any kind of violating material that was created based on real people or pictures. If it resembles or was obviously manufactured to resemble "the real thing", this rule applies.

Post material listed in our Prohibited Content/Artists thread.

End User Agreement for the E-Hentai User Galleries

As quoted from the Gallery Help page:

You agree that, upon uploading content to this site, the content you upload is either Public
Domain, released under a Creative Commons-type license, or not copyrighted (i.e. it is within 
your rights to publish it here); or you own the copyright to the content and consent to it 
being fully published here; or you have a separate license from the copyright holder to make 
their content publicly available.

If you do violate these rules, you agree that we can submit your browsing history, uploading 
history, posting history, medical history, any and all IP addresses you have ever browsed or 
posted with, proxy traces, e-mail addresses, referring web sites, browser type, blood type, 
favorite stuffed animals, and any and all other personal information gathered in any way on 
E-Hentai.org, E-Hentai Galleries and the E-Hentai Forums, to anyone we damn well please. So 
be warned.

Copyright and Imaginary Property

As quoted from the Gallery Help page:

E-Hentai Galleries complies with applicable copyright law. Unfortunately, due to sheer volume it
is impossible for us to verify the copyright status of every single gallery uploaded to our site. 
If you find that your copyright has been violated by one of our members, please report this using
the Report button on the gallery in question, or send an e-mail to ehentai@gmail.com. 

Please make sure to include some proof that you are the copyright holder (your real name and
website address where content may be found/purchased is usually sufficient), as well as a statement
that the copyright on the content has not expired, and that the content has not been released
under an irrevocable license (like Creative Commons) that would have allowed the content to be made
freely available. You may send it to the specified e-mail address in the form of a DMCA Takedown
Notice if you wish, as it contains sufficient provisions. Please allow six to twelve hours for
qualified staff to process your claim.

Furthermore, please be aware that all copyright claims are made under perjury of law, and false
claims may be prosecuted.

Current Content Categories

Currently, there are nine categories that a user gallery can fall under.

Doujinshi

Commonly self published, doujinshi are H-manga that are very often based off of formalized content, such as anime, manga, videogames, or other products that have anime-like characters or mascots (such as as the synthesizer Vocaloid).

Manga

H-manga or just manga for short in the context used on this site, are published works almost always of original content by an artist or circle. It is common to see multiple H-manga serialized in larger magazines, and for these magazines themselves be called H-manga.

Artist CG

Computer generated artwork that are generally collections of their respective artists are listed as artist CG. Sometimes an image set is used in place of artist CG, and vice versa.

Game CG

Computer generated work, often frames from Eroge (erotic games) are listed as game CG, and tend to be very large in the number of files in the actual gallery. Sometimes (but far less common than artist CG) an image set is used in place of game CG, and vice versa.

Image Set

Image Sets are a generic gallery, used more often than miscellaneous when an uploader can't decide what category to place a gallery. They are often galleries of related content that are not manga or doujinshi.

Cosplay

Real people who dress up as characters in anime, manga, and videogames for general posing or for sexual purposes find their way to this category.

Asian Porn

The Asian porn category exists for users who wish to share their own collections of Asian pornography (non cartoon related). Originally this category was named "Real Porn" but due to rampant uploading content of relative bad taste (such as overweight or obese models, content with little or no nudity, and otherwise fugly looking people) the Administrator decided in August of 2008 to relocate non-Asian porn to the Miscellaneous section. Unlike most other galleries, the amount of GP earned from private galleries is reduced to 50% of what an uploader would usually receive. For instance if a gallery would earn 100 GP, the uploader would only receive 50 GP rather than the full 100.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous is, for the most part, the dumping place for unrelated content that is put up by an uploader. Sometimes this category is used for very small galleries, or is commonly misused when another category is more appropriate. This section is also used for the uploading of non-Asian real porn. Unlike most other galleries, the amount of GP earned from private galleries is reduced to 25% of what an uploader would usually receive. For instance, if a gallery would earn 100 GP, the uploader would only receive 25 GP rather than the full 100.

Private

Though not a formal category, private galleries are user galleries that the user has opted not to share with the rest of the E-Hentai Gallery community. Often they are personal galleries, reuploads of other galleries that the user wanted for him/herself, etc. Unlike most other galleries, the amount of GP earned from private galleries is reduced to 10% of what an uploader would usually receive. For instance if a gallery would earn 100 GP, the uploader would only receive 10 GP rather than the full 100.

Subsystems of the E-Hentai Gallery System

User Overview and Control Panel

- Main Article: Gallery Control Panel

The User Overview and Control Panel is the primary location of information regarding a users activity on the E-Hentai User Galleries. Included are your visits and hits stats, GP converision, settings, etc.

Public Gallery Moderation (Expunging)

- Main Article: Public Gallery Moderation

Gallery Moderation (commonly referred to as expunging) allows users to petition for the removal of galleries from the front gallery page, primarily in regarding duplicate and inferior copies of already established galleries.

Toplists

- Main Article: Toplists

The E-Hentai Toplists are a set of listings that showcase users who contribute the most to the galleries in many ways. There are currently 4 toplists, for individual galleries, uploaders, taggers, and Hentai@Home participants.

Gallery Manager

- Main Article: Gallery Manager

The Gallery Manager is the most important system of the User Galleries. It allows uses to upload and maintain their own galleries for public and private use. It also allows a user to categorize and sort their galleries using gallery folders.

The Bounty System

- Main Article: Bounty System

The Bounty System is designed to give users a direct incentive to help other users in finding doujinshi, manga, and other material that can be posted on the galleries or in other mediums.

The Doggiebag System

- Main Article: Doggie Bag System

The Doggiebag system allows users of the site to download archived versions of a gallery for a fee, either in Credits or Gallery Points. This system is shared by both the user galleries as well as the main galleries.

Gallery Favorites

- Main Article: Gallery Favorites

Gallery Favorites allow a user to save a large number of galleries to a list of favorites. These favorites are saved a user chosen category which is customizable by the user.

Gallery Rating System

- Main Article: Gallery Rating System

The rating system of the user galleries allow users to rate their own galleries as well as others. a gallery's rating is viewable on the front page of the galleries as well as within the respective gallery.

Quick Browse in the User Galleries

Essentially the same system under the same name (see the Quick Browse Skill), the Quick Browse skill is a javascript based prefetching system that loads images in the gallery in the background, allowing faster gallery loading. This can be enabled through gallery settings, of which you must have a Gold Aura or the Hath Perk Quick Browse.

Searching System

As of April 20th, 2008 the searching algorithm underwent a complete rewrite. Included in the rewrite was:

A correction of the issue of finding keywords in multiple areas of a gallery, but not all in one area, causing the gallery to not be returned in a search.

The implementation of exclusion searching (adding a '-' to exclude keywords from a search) as well as exclusive searching (using quotations to allow forced string searches )

Formal support for pattern matching using '_' and '?' to match any character in a keyword, as well as '*' and '%' to match any character sequence in a search string.

In House Example

comic*lo*4? would match everything with a title/tag starting with "comic" followed by any sequence
of chars (including none) followed by "lo" followed by another any-char-sequence followed by a 4
and a wildcard (like 40, 41, 42 and so on)

"comic rin" -2007 -2008 would match "comic rin" (but not permutations of this), that does not also
contain 2007 or 2008 in the title or tag

comic -"comic rin*2008" would match "comic", excluding everything titled/tagged as "comic rin"
followed by any-char-sequence followed by 2008

Search by Hash

In a post in the forums Tenboro stated that searching by hashes is possible:

Well you can, just feed the system an URL with the hash like this.
http://g.e-hentai.org/?f_shash=sha1hashhere

Current Known Issues

Since the event systems and the User Galleries are not actually integrated, a peculiar quirk occurs. The system directs a user to the particular page that would have an event once every hour, but if the user does not have an active event or does not qualify to get a new one it will redirect the user to the ad that would be there.

Currently this issue cannot be fixed without removing events from galleries.

References

Tenboro and extensive use of the E-Hentai Galleries.
Gallery Help

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