Sankaku Channel/help: quick guide

For a complete list of search tools including technical tools, see help: advanced search guide.

Common search tools and search help are listed below.

How to search

Find images with specific content by entering one or more desired tags into the search bar of the posts page.
Example: solo smile rating:safe outdoors

Sankaku Channel returns posts that contain all the tags in a search. To retrieve images that fit any single tag in a search, add a tilde before each tag (i.e. ~tag1 ~tag2).
Example: ~dancing ~singing

Separate each tag with a space

Use underscores to mark spaces in names and phrases.
Example: white_background suzumiya_haruhi_no_yuuutsu
---Notice each tag (white_background and suzumiya_haruhi_no_yuutsu) is separated by a space.

For a broad list of supported tags, see tag groups.

Search options

Exclude up to four tags from your search by adding a minus sign before the tag

Example: touhou -remilia_scarlet -hat

Filter search by content rating

Use the following keywords to filter the rating of your results:

• rating:safe - posts which are rated safe for work
• rating:questionable - posts with questionably rated content
• rating:explicit - posts with sexual or other explicit content (NSFW)

Exclude a specific rating by adding a minus sign. (-rating:e) For more information on ratings, see help: ratings.

Bring high quality posts to the top

Use threshold:# to search for posts that meet or exceed the specified rating, between 1 star and 5 stars. (threshold:4)

order:quality sorts results based on score, views, and times favorited.

order:popular sorts by a combination of quality and post age, favoring newer posts.

Other sorting options include by resolution (order:mpixels), orientation (order:landscape / order:portrait), random order (order:random), recent comments (order:recently_commented) and more.

Other quick suggestions

When variations of the same image flood search results, try excluding child posts by adding parent:none
Example: mirco_cabbia vs. mirco_cabbia parent:none

Video Uploads Guideline

Videos can be uploaded with or without sound. The supported formats are WebM, MP4, OGV and SWF. Uploaded videos must have a size under 256MB.

Tagging

tag1 tag2
Tags a post with tag1 and tag2.

maria-sama_ga_miteru
Replace spaces in tags with underscores.

tanaka_rie soryu_asuka_langley
Use LastName FirstName order for characters with Japanese last names, or characters with full Chinese or Korean names. Middle names always follow the first name.

john_smith akira_ferrari tony_leung
Use FirstName LastName order for characters with non-Asian names, or characters with Japanese first names but non-Asian last names, or characters with non-Asian first names but Chinese last names.

general:food
Prefix a tag with general to remove any type. The prefix will be dropped when the tag is saved.

artist:wakatsuki_sana
Prefix a tag with artist: to type it as an artist. The prefix will be dropped when the tag is saved.

character:gasai_yuno
Prefix a tag with character: (or char:) to type it as a character.

copyright:mirai_nikki
Prefix a tag with copyright: (or copy:) to type is as a copyright. Copyright tags include things like anime, manga, games, novels, or original doujinshi works.

rating:questionable
Rates a post as questionable. This tag is discarded after the rating is changed.

parent:1234
Sets the post's parent id to 1234. This tag is discarded after the parent id is changed. If the parent id is the same as the post id, then the parent id will be cleared.

pool:maria-sama_ga_miteru_manga
Adds the post to the "Maria-sama ga Miteru Manga" pool. This tag is discarded after the post is added to the pool. Make sure to replace spaces with underscores. If the pool with the given name doesn't exist, it will be automatically created.

pool:10
Adds the post to pool n.10.

-pool:10
Removes the post from pool n.10.

in_visible_pool:true
Makes only posts inside pools appear.

in_visible_pool:true
Makes only posts not inside pools appear.

Comments & Forum

post #1000
Creates a link to post n.1000.

comment #1000
Creates a link to comment n.1000.

forum #1000
Creates a link to forum post n.1000.

pool #1000
Creates a link to pool n. 1000.

[spoiler]spoiler text[/spoiler]
Marks "spoiler text" as a spoiler.

[*[link to this page]*] (Without the **)
Creates an internal link to the wiki page with title "link to this page".

Notes

<tn>translation note</tn>
Styles "translation note" as a translation note.