Definder - what does the word mean?

What is publishing?

An email that is commonly taken personally by people when their definition on Urban Dictionary is not published. It goes like:

Thanks for your definition of ________!

A few volunteer editors read your definition and decided to not publish it. Don't take it personally!

To understand what definitions we publish and reject, check out this blog post: (definitions can't contain links)

Try rewriting your definition so that it's easier for others to understand, then try again.

Thanks,

Urban Dictionary

Then follows the rejected definition.

Mark: Mate, my definition on Urban Dictionary was not published
Josiah: Those savage volunteer editors.

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Publishing - what is it?

Every definition on Urban Dictionary was written by a user like you. 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. People often email and ask, why didnโ€™t my definition get published? Well, weโ€™d like to know too.

The truth is, we donโ€™t decide. Sometimes weโ€™re just as puzzled. Some rejected definitions seem perfectly good to us. Sometimes we wouldnโ€™t vote for a definition, but we canโ€™t really say why. Urban Dictionaryโ€™s users get to edit the content, so they get to decide. However, since this is a frequent question, we thought weโ€™d look into how users make the decision to publish or not publish a particular definition.

We wanted to understand what matters in a definition, what helps it get accepted. To do this, we started by asking users to just describe a list of eight random submissions. We gave people one line of text to describe the submission. For example, one of the words was โ€œphil collins.โ€

Not Published
People described this definition as โ€œSomewhat biasedโ€, โ€œopinionatedโ€, or โ€œNO! PHIL COLLINS IS THE SHITโ€. We collected 69 responses for each word, grouped them together and tried to find the main idea in the description. We continued to group things together until we ended up with eight categories.

funny
hilarious
pun/play on words
amusing
clever/smart

clearly and correctly written
complicated/too long
bad grammar
capitalized/formatting
confused

specificity
personal
too specific
about a celebrity
slander
biased
opinionated

offensive
degrading
slander
sexist
racist
usage
redundant
original
makes sense
helpful
lame
strange
weird

quality of the definition
informative
true
wrong
accurate
stupid/dumb

graphic
disgusting
visceral
dirty

provocative
sexual
improper

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What does "publishing" mean?

To make content available to the public by any means, either for a cost, or for free.

Far too much pure nonsense is published on the World Wide Web, and especially on UrbanDictionary.com.

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Publishing - what does it mean?

this will not be published

this will not be published

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Publishing - meaning

The sickening feeling that your entries were rejected from Urban Dictionary. Often confused with anxiety and hunger.

"Your entry was rejected"
"Thats what she said.."

"Not Published"
"WHY?~!"

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Publishing - definition

'______' was not published: the title of a cruel, mocking email you will inevitably receive from Urban Dictionary after spending 30 minutes or more typing up a brilliant definition. They claim other users voted and decided not to publish your word, but really it was a shitty algorithm that only publishes acronyms (eg. 'SIUYA' - 'stick it up your ass')

Me: *painstakingly and eloquently defines 'the meaning of life'
Urban Dictionary: "'the meaning of life'...was not published"
Me: "SIUYA, Urban Dictionary. You've sucked since 2010"

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Publishing - slang

When Urban Dictionary tells you that your word has been approved by the editors and published to the site, but you find out that it really hasn't. It leaves you wondering whether it's due to a bug or a bit of good ol' censorship.

My definition of Ziocon was "published" by Urban Dictionary.

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Publishing

Something you wouldn't see in your email after publishing an Urban Dictionary Definition and waiting for review. But it's really common to see "Not published", Believe it or not, Urban Dictionary Doesn't like Inappropriate stuff, or should i say, Urban Dick-tionary. Of course, this is not getting published, and if you're reading this off the site That means Urban Dictionary Got pissed off to prove me wrong.

Published was not published. - Urban Dictionary

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Publishing

A phrase commonly seen when receiving a verification e-mail from Urban Dictionary. It sucks so bad because you never, ever have any idea why they didn't publish it because they never, ever give you reasons why.

Receives e-mail from UD: "Your definition was not published."

You: "WHY??!?!"

E-mail says: "You can choose to sign up as editor for Urban Dictionary."

You: "NO!!! I WANNA KNOW WHY YOU DIDN'T PUBLISH MY DEFINITION!"

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Publishing

Something that's very common to see now because Urban Dictionary clearly uses some weird algorithm that impedes definitions from getting published when there was a time when they used to publish EVERYTHING!

The site is a piece of shit now. Even if it's a G-rated definition, it's still unlikely to get published.

Not published? Fuck you, Urban Dictionary. You're useless now.

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