QC at the UD
I’ve been going to UrbanDictionary.com a lot lately. I oringinally had thought it was great, then thought it sucked because it had no quality control and people were either always posting non-slang or self-promoting/flaming each other, treating it like a 12 year old’s message board or some such nonsense.
Things are looking up, however, thanks to Urban Dictionary instituting a quality control program. The page shows you five definitions people have flagged as being fit for removal (an option next to every defitition on the site) and you select whether “it stays”, “it goes”, or you are unqualified to decide (“i don’t know”). There is no hassle of logging in, and it preserves the wiki-like feel of the site without letting immature adolescents run rampant like spammers, which is, of course, exactly what most of them are doing.
I even go as far as redefining words that are valid but have been totally mis-defined. I am not sure how the QC process is carried out, the site’s operators have not yet responded to my email, but I’ll get back to you on that. So if you ever have a question about a slang word you may have heard, just go to the Urban Dictionary, and if you have some spare time, do some for em.
It only take a few seconds!
PS: Jalbey, you are not allowed to do any more QA than you do at work, not like you would want to anyway. You probably shuddered as soon as you saw the word quality!
