URBAN DICTIONARY: Does just anyone get to post a reply there?

[Wwcd]

Last edited Wed Apr 25, 2018, 10:42 PM - Edit history (1)

If so I believe the site was also a target by trolls, bots.

I rarely refer to Urban Dictionay for a description but I was doing a google search & it showed up, I found us described there.

The posts are straight out of JPR & RWers & the curious thing is the # of thumbs up given those posts.

Is there any way to have the meanings given corrected?

Just wondering.

If this post is questionable in any way, let me know & I'll delete.

I really need to know how popular Urban Dictionary is. Who reads it?
Ugh!!


Here.
Type in Democratic Underground at the top.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Democratic underground

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Definitions rise or fall as they are voted up or down. That's it.

[Wwcd]

5. I see. Seems like a place where anyone can go to vent.

Thanks, WhiskeyGrinder

The posts are opinion then, not necessarily fact.

Its a pretty crazy place!

gaaah!

Here's what I stumbled onto that prompted my question. I see all 8 postings are from 2004, 2008 etc. Not current.

Here. Type in Democratic Underground at the top.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Democratic underground

[Wwcd]

7. One of the last posts mentions DUers names

That is a bizarre page

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. It's just a rating site, is all.

[trixie2]

2. I check it from time to time

To keep up with the teens lingo. I find it helpful.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. I used to visit there...

It's a repository for slang terms and their definitions. I think I made a couple of entries myself - I go see if I can sign in and find them...

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. I use it on occasion to catch up on terminology.

[RockRaven]

6. I only go there when

I've googled a new pop culture or slang term I'm not familiar with, and there isn't a better result like wikipedia or wiktionary. Seems like a hot mess of a website in general.

[Wwcd]

9. Yes. A Hot Mess is descript all right!

The posts I read were from Bush/Kerry days I think.

The last one actually named some DU posters!
Cripe..

[crazycatlady]

8. I read it when I'm not sure what something means

I believe Rachel Maddow introduced me to the site when the right started to self-identify as 'teabaggers'

[IADEMO2004]

10. Search "Free Republic" there It's worth a laugh.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Free%20Republic

[Wwcd]

11. One could write quite a thesis on a group of those posts, for College, Grad school, or

for a course in Psychiatry, Clinical Psycology etc.

Can you imagine how that thesis would read?

[Major Nikon]

13. From what Ive seen its edited by pubescents