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06/14/2004: "UrbanDictionary.com's Interesting Method of Online Quality Control"
Urban Dictionary has an interesting method of "Quality Control." Any user can vote for or against keeping definitions that other users complain about. I found myself more addicted to voting whether certain definitions should stay or go than I did giving ratings on HotOrNot.com when it first came out. The idea of affecting whether or not ignorance should be removed from the web site is remarkably appealing.
This site, as a whole, started out as an interesting place to get some information on slang. What it has degraded into is a forum for ignorant idiots to post blather about how "gay" so-and-so is. I had the notion that racism and intolerance were on the decline. This site proves that notion to be amazingly false. There are countless racist and intolerant definitions and comments.
The creators of the site should get a nod for providing an interesting site. I can't imagine that they're happy with the way the online community has abused it.
Some of the reasons people give for deleting definitions are almost as amazingly stupid as some of the definitions that people post:
"This is ethnically prejudiced against all Americans and should be removed for its senseless hatred."
Um, "American" is not an ethnicity/race.
"This is stupid middle school shit...write this on a bathroom stall and leave this website alone."
Sadly, this describes a majority of the "definitions" on the site.
this f*ckin idiot..... i love you if you delete this. And yes, I'm female. I do girls too, if you wanna know
/puzzled look
