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Neat site, but not sure how well the content scales. Pithy rhymes and alliteration get stale pretty quickly. Obviously, the beauty of Urban Dictionary is the ab
by acjohnson55 13y ago
Neat site, but not sure how well the content scales. Pithy rhymes and alliteration get stale pretty quickly. Obviously, the beauty of Urban Dictionary is the ability to lookup words that are actually in use. So it has practical utility outside of its obvious entertainment value. Not sure this works the same way.
- seventytwo 13y agoThanks for the feedback! We're just starting out and this is an excellent stress test for us... Any other concerns or comments are greatly appreciated. Alliteration and portmanteau are a given for something like this. However, we designed the site to be able to handle submissions like foreign words, obscure English words, and also completely made-up words. Additionally, the scenarios don't necessarily need to be word-less lexical gaps! They can describe something which may already have a bunch of words associated with it - the WFT platform being used, in that case, as a voting (or popularity contest) system for the existing slang. Last, to counter the practicality of UD, WFT has the ability to search based on the scenarios and keywords. Once our databases are bit more filled out, users will be able to come to the site to search for a situation and see the most commonly-used (or most clever or whatever) words for that. I do agree, however, that it may take some effort and some tweaking of the site to encourage something more than the lowest-common-denominator submissions from the general public. Then again, there's a trade-off there between improving content and alienating potential users. Thanks for the feedback though! Lots to think about!
- itsameta4 13y agoPlease ban the word "totally" from definition examples.