Posted Thu, 04 February 2010, 08:22 UTC by Tenboro
0.15.2
Tags 2.0
So, one huge internal revamping on how the tag system works? Check.
Except for having much less storage/memory overhead, the primary advantage of the new system is the ability for the system to group tags into logically equivalent groups in a way that's still search-efficient.
So what does that mean? Each group of tags has one Master Tag which enjoys certain privileges, and one or more Slave Tags that the system will try to keep down. Doing a search for a slave tag will automatically include search results for the master tag as well. (Except when using the /tag/ shorthand, that one is still exact, for various reasons.)
Basically, Tag Groups are formed with one Master Tag and several Slave Tags. This stage is mostly manual (for now at least), and we'll get back to that below.
If you try to add or vote up a slave tag, the system will replace it with the master tag instead. It will still allow you to vote down slave tags, but they cannot be added or voted up.
Note that existing slave tags will *not* be automatically replaced. There are several reasons for this, but mostly it is because this would add a large amount of complexity to the system. Furthermore, grouping tags would then involve dangerous operations that would not be reversible (without a lot of painful state tracking), meaning there would be no easy way to "undo" such groupings.
Slave tags will however be displayed somewhat faded out. If you have a browser that supports opacity. No, not IE, not even IE8. Yes, all other major browsers. Did I ever mention how much IE bites?
There are a few other changes as well.
- Tag voting now uses the same mod power as is used for most other stuff. The modmod is applied to both upvoting and downvoting, but the usual half-power downvoting is still in effect.
- Existing tag votes were converted with a /3 factor. While recomputing the actual power was possible, this would almost certainly have caused tons of previously voted-off tags to appear again.
- Due to the overall power reduction, a tag now needs 2 points to display, 5 points to be searchable (without DTS), and 50 100 points to take effect as a "magic" tag.
- The number of tagflags for each tier was increased to 5/10/25. But note that you will have to re-enter your tagflags due to the above changes.
Who wants to be a Tag Monkey?
Like I mentioned above, grouping tags that are equivalent is currently a manual task, using a special private script. I could of course do this myself, but for the most part I'd like to get a some volunteers who are already involved in tagging to handle this part.
So, if you are super-active on the forums AND super-active with tagging AND you don't have a habit of getting on my tits, AND you want to be a Tag Monkey, sign up below. I'll pick three people or so - those who I feel are best suited for it, considering the given conditions.
Misc
- You should now be able to hit "enter" to search in IE, just like you've been able to in all other browsers for the past couple of years. But it still bites.
And as an end note, here is a fine example on the great variety of the English language. I honestly didn't know this word had that many accepted alternative spellings:
- The Reviewer Toplist has been added. Note that review activity will probably need to pick up somewhat before this becomes fully populated, given the scoring cutoff. Review votes have been changed to use this Toplist.
- Temporarily reduced the score needed to cap the rewards, until voting becomes more established.
- There is now a link on the image pages to show all galleries that contain a certain file. Note that this link won't show up in Quickbrowse mode.
- Fixed uploader searching for people with certain chars in their name.
- Fixed default categories not being applied correctly when using the /tag/ and /uploader/ shorthands.
- Using the /tag/ and /uploader/ shorthands will no longer force the advanced search pane to appear.
- Source downloading now actually gives 10 freebies, not 9.
- Source downloading should again work with Quickbrowse enabled.
- Having Quickbrowse will now give you 100 freebies instead of the normal 10.
- Fixed some layout problems and tweaked some stuff on the Gallery Torrent screen.
- Made a bunch of improvements to how the Popular Right Now pane is generated. Also added an additional (potential) row, for various more or less valid reasons.
- Added a toggle under Gallery Settings to enable/disable the PRN pane. Of course, you will break my heart if you disable it. So now the question presented before you is, is it worth it?
- The system now pays a bit more attention to match background row colors when laying out ads on the front/search page. Of course this only applies for unregistered visitors, since registered members don't see them at all.
- Single-page source downloading (link below the image on the image pages) will now allow you 10 freebies a day, provided you're registered.
Gallery Reviews
A review/commenting system has been added to galleries. This is displayed below the thumbnails, and allows you to review and comment on galleries directly.
Each review is assigned a score. The ones you post yourself start with a base score determined by your moderation power (expunge power), and can be increased or reduced through other people voting for or against them. This voting happens with the same power. Votes can be withdrawn by hitting the vote button a second time, or reversed by hitting the opposite vote.
Reviews are listed in the order of this score. Those that get a score below -100 will not be displayed, but you can click the (x hidden) link to bring them up. Note that the default view is restricted to the 10 top ranked reviews, but you can get the rest by hitting the (x hidden) link as well.
Note that in order to prevent "tactical voting" (i.e. cheating), you cannot vote for reviews in galleries where you have written one yourself, and vice-versa. Adding a review to a gallery will remove any votes you have placed. Furthermore, all review votes are displayed below the review itself.
Voting for or against reviews counts towards the Cleanup toplist. The reviews themselves will also count against a toplist, but I need to gather some data for this first - it will most likely be retroactively applied, anyway.
Note that the Review system is to be considered fairly experimental. I suggest you keep a local copy of the reviews you write, just in case.
Also, the review/comment system really is intended for doing both. You can type short comments about the gallery, and those shouldn't generally be voted off. But see below for what type of rewards the system will give you for either. And keep garbage comments elsewhere.
Review BBCode
A few standard BBCode tags are supported by the review structure. There are the four essential formatting codes:
CODE
[b]Bold[/b]
Bold
CODE
[i]Italic[/i]
Italic
CODE
[s]Strike-through[/s]
Strike-through
CODE
[u]Underline[/u]
Underline
More advanced formatting options may be made available later, if there's any demand.
The system also supports the url and img tags, but in a more limited form.
The URL tag
CODE
Variation 1: [url]http://g.e-hentai.org/uploader/someone[/url] Variation 2: [url=http://g.e-hentai.org/tag/sometag]This is some tag[/url] Variation 3 (automatic): http://g.e-hentai.org/tag/someothertag
To avoid spammer heaven, the URL tag can only be used to link against other pages on Galleries as well as the Forums. External links will not be removed, they will simply not be made clickable.
The IMG tag
CODE
Plain: [img]http://gt0.ehgt.org:81/8e/c5/8ec5e1d44aab90a67d756441b0ba5440d2d77ce9-1221659-1097-1600-jpg_l.jpg[/img] With Link: [url=http://g.e-hentai.org/tag/rei][img]http://gt1.ehgt.org:81/d8/2a/d82a6947445c1eeaecb670fbe8b5828d04ffea97-1051109-1097-1600-jpg_l.jpg[/img][/url]
Plain: With Link:
The IMG tag is restricted to thumbnails on the official E-Hentai thumbnail servers only, to avoid certain evil problems (privacy issues and browser vulnerabilities).
Reviews Reward Structure
Every hour, all the reviews are graded on Score (capped to 200), Rank (how high up it is for that particular gallery), the Gallery's Popularity (capped to twice the average number of visitors per gallery), as well as Verbosity (very short comments don't get any actual awards, but this value caps pretty fast).
If a review maxes out all four stats, it could (subject to change) generate up to 200 GP per day.
If it ranks below #10, has a score below 0, or is on a gallery that doesn't get any visits, it gets nothing.
Be aware that any abuse of the review/voting system, like organized downvoting targeting specific users, or schemes aimed at getting certain people's reviews higher than they would normally be, or useless padding of comments, will be penalized. (The system does block this automatically to some extent, but, just saying.)
REVIEWS SHOULD ALWAYS BE SCORED ON THEIR OWN MERIT. Just don't be a tard.
Oh, and about the breaking of the heart, I was just joshing with you. I couldn't care less either way, I can't even see what you have it set to.
8 hours ago: Oh, and the database work was seriously bogging down the servers, so I aborted it a few hours ago. Will do the rest tomorrow morning.
