I signed up as an editor to the Urban Dictionary {http://www.urbandictionary.com/}. I've been an editor for at least a month. I get to vote for submissions to the Urban Dictionary:
[Publish], [Don't Publish], or [Don't Know]. An unknown number of editors are needed to approve each individual submission. The only flaw I've seen as an editor was that I got a chance to vote for my own submission before. Of course I hit the Publish vote. A tad biased I suppose.
My guidelines:
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As an editor, you decide what gets published. Use these guidelines while you make your decisions.
1. Publish celebrity names but reject friends' names.
2. Publish racial and sexual slurs but reject racist and sexist entries.
3. Publish opinions.
4. Publish place names.
5. Publish non-slang words. Ignore misspellings and swearing.
6. Publish jokes.
7. Reject sexual violence.
8. Reject nonsense. Be consistent on duplicates.
9. Reject ads for web sites.
10. Publish if it looks plausible.
Here are two great separate definitions that I had chosen to approve:
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Abilify
This pill is ****. Just like Seroquel and Zyprexa. I don't understand how this pill has such a modern image when it is one thing: complete and utter ****. It's an antipsychotic, one of the shut-you-up drugs. Psychiatrists prescribe this **** so they can boot you out the door and make their money. The side effects I can't really comment on, except for one: hyperness/hyperactivity. This isn't a fun focused and attentive high feeling you get with Adderall. Its definitely more like a feeling of bugs are crawling under your skin, your muscles HAVE to be in motion, and you can't sleep. Someone can take this pill and they will be squirming around and being hyperactive for almost 3 days. Seriously, when I was driving on half a pill of this stuff, I was going about 60 over the speed limit on the road and I wasn't even aware of it. The drug manufacturer (Bristol-Meyers Squibb) makes those commercials saying that 2 out of 3 people on an antidepressant don't feel relief, so they should add Abilify. So this leads people to think Abilify is an antidepressant when it is truly an antipsychotic that is used to shut people up! After the manufacturer got the approval for the adjunct treatment of Abilify to their antidepressant, their sales skyrocketed!
The commercials are a complete lie. All of a sudden when these depressed people take Abilify, the weather is better, everyone is smiling, and the world is a better place. When truly they should either A. go see a counselor to talk about their depression, or B. get a different antidepressant. Oh, and it cost me $50 for a copay and my insurance another $600. So it isn't cheap. If your doctor wants to immediately put you on this, they are a drug pusher, unless you are schizophrenic, then it may help you.
Stay away from abilify!
by TJM91 on Apr 25, 2010
tags: antipsychotic, ****, seroqel, zyprexa, dumb, psychiatrist, drug
I really found this one to be odd as I'm sure the author was absolutely high on Abilify (verging on a possible overdose) when he created this very manic encyclopedic entry. Hope he comes down from this manic episode without any physical or property damage to himself or any nearby innocent bystander.
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RESIDUAL CAPITALIZATION DISORDER (RCD)
THE ACT OF OVER-CAPITALIZATION AS A RESULT OF CONTINUING USE OF THE CAPS-LOCK FUNCTION. SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE ALTERING STATE OF MIND AND TONE OF VOICE TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEWLY DEVELOPED PUNCTUATION.
DESPITE HER FADING OVER-ENTHUSIASM, PAIGE C. CALHOUN CONTINUED TO MAKE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS IN HER CASUAL CONVERSATION AS A RESULT OF HER STRUGGLE WITH RESIDUAL CAPITALIZATION DISORDER (RCD).
by PAIGE C. CALHOUN on Apr 25, 2010
tags: ocd, disorder, typing, voice, tone
Sheer brilliance though the inclusion of her personal name is supposed to be a disqualifying factor. Still, I overlooked this fault and hope that the several other editors that get this submission approve its entry as well.
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