Twenty years ago, I started Urban Dictionary as a place for everyone to share their language. We want to keep hearing from you and welcome your comments in the form at this link. The work we are doing now aims to preserve that. But the things you love about Urban Dictionary will not change: the irreverence, creativity and humor will remain. Right now their behavior has an outsized impact on the rest of the site - it harms the community and often silences other voices. We hope this will improve the overall health of Urban Dictionary.Ī very small number of users are responsible for the abusive content we want to remove. Our goal is to help users write better definitions, and empower users to flag definitions that do not meet our community guidelines. But we will clarify Urban Dictionary’s community guidelines and build better tools to enforce them. We will not ban certain words, and we can’t solve hate and abuse in the world (who can, really?). But there is a difference between using Urban Dictionary to document the meaning of an offensive word and using it to celebrate or endorse an offensive meaning. Knowing an offensive word’s meaning can combat inequality and abuse. Urban Dictionary is an important tool to understand what those words mean.
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We know that the real world can be offensive and is full of offensive words. You don’t defeat evil by hiding it away, you expose it to the light, because only then can people see how bad it is, and only then can their minds be changed on it. Informing them and educating on meanings DOES. Pretending those words don’t exist doesn’t help them or anyone. Children ask parents what bad words mean. You provide a service that helps people identify and inform themselves While some words are offensive, they NEED to be defined so that people can arm themselves with information and understanding. Solving “hate” or “abuse” will not be accomplished by selectively deeming slang words to be unacceptable for a dictionary that attempts to keep up with colloquial language as it becomes popular. The world is full of diverse thoughts and languages.
And if you’d like to join the moderation team, let us know. This project is ongoing and we welcome your feedback. If you see a definition that violates our content guidelines, please flag it, and our moderation team will review it quickly. Our own moderation team now reviews all newly-submitted and flagged definitions, and rejects definitions that violate our content guidelines. Generally, a definition that describes an offensive or violent term is okay, but a definition that endorses or promotes an offensive or violent term is not okay. We updated our public content guidelines, and detailed content guidelines, to clarify what’s okay on Urban Dictionary. Over time, this system had become dominated by a loud minority who published abusive definitions and didn’t publish the good stuff. We appreciate our volunteer moderators’ work over the years.
Under the old system, a definition was published when a majority of volunteer moderators decided it was worth publishing. Here’s what we’ve changed, and what we haven’t changed, so far.ĭefinitions are no longer moderated by volunteers. We knew that sustaining the unique spirit of Urban Dictionary would require big changes. Last year we blogged about Urban Dictionary’s focus on content moderation.
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