Each person got to rate only one word, one time. We then asked people editing Urban Dictionary to rate fifty submissions (25 that had been accepted, 25 rejected) on these descriptors. We edited some of the category names so that they roughly corresponded to a fifth grade reading level, for example, “graphic” became “nasty”. We took these categories and turned them into possible descriptions of definitions. We continued to group things together until we ended up with eight categories. We collected 69 responses for each word, grouped them together and tried to find the main idea in the description. People described this definition as “Somewhat biased”, “opinionated”, or “NO! PHIL COLLINS IS THE SHIT”. For example, one of the words was “phil collins.” We gave people one line of text to describe the submission. To do this, we started by asking users to just describe a list of eight random submissions. We wanted to understand what matters in a definition, what helps it get accepted. However, since this is a frequent question, we thought we’d look into how users make the decision to publish or not publish a particular definition. Urban Dictionary’s users get to edit the content, so they get to decide. Sometimes we wouldn’t vote for a definition, but we can’t really say why. Some rejected definitions seem perfectly good to us. People often email and ask, why didn’t my definition get published? Well, we’d like to know too. About a thousand definitions are sent to Urban Dictionary every day, but only half enter the hallowed ranks beside ratchet, Harlem Shake, and Cleveland Steamer. Every definition on Urban Dictionary was written by a user like you.
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