Quality Control
Persons submitting definitions must provide a valid e-mail address which is used as a simple process to establish good faith. Every submission must be approved by editors before it is added to the dictionary; editors must register with the site using a valid e-mail address and may vote to accept or reject newly submitted definitions.
After receiving a sufficient differential of "accept" over "reject" votes, definitions are published to the dictionary. There may be hundreds of entries for a term or word, so various and often conflicting "histories" exist.
Individual entries cannot be edited by the registered users en masse.
Definitions already in the dictionary can be voted thumbs "up" or "down" by any site visitor.
Once a definition is included in the dictionary, editors may review it and remove it if it is against the guidelines. However, those definitions which have proven popular by voting cannot be removed, and an editor may only recommend removal of five definitions per 24-hour period.
On the Urban Dictionary Forum, registered members can discuss enhancements or problems they experience with the site, and vote for changes to be made. Forums are places of lively discussion; recent subjects include: "Allow users to upload sounds and images", "Get rid of stupid definitions from being first on lists", and "Allow editors to delete more than 5 bad definitions per day".
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—Fred Rogers (20th century)