Urban Dictionary's content guidelines

Share definitions that other people will find meaningful and never post hate speech or people’s personal information.
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Please review Urban Dictionary's content guidelines before writing a definition.

by UrbanDictionaryOwl September 14, 2020

Content guidelines

A bunch of bullshit you always skim by.

toobs: holy shit i´d rather die before reading the content guidelines, it would actually eat up half of my lifespan to do.

by im copper October 24, 2023

Please review Urban Dictionary’s content guidelines before writing your definition. Here’s the short version: Share definitions that other people will find meaningful and never post hate speech or people’s personal information.

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Urban Dictionary: Please review Urban Dictionary’s content guidelines before writing your definition. Here’s the short version: Share definitions that other people will find meaningful and never post hate speech or people’s personal information.

Me: ait bet imma make a definition of this

by skibidigyattfanumtaxohiosigma1 January 2, 2024

Urban Dictionary Content Guidelines

Urban Dictionary is made by a community of millions, including you. Anybody can post a definition, but in order to keep things fun for everyone, we ask that you follow a few ground rules:

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Write for a large audience. When defining a word, make sure to provide enough context for other people to understand what it means and how it’s typically used. Need a little help? Look to our Word of the Day for some examples.

Be creative. Some of the best definitions on Urban Dictionary find humorous ways to poke fun at authority, or put a clever twist on current events. Some of them are just straight up weird. We’re okay with that.

Have fun. We are not a traditional dictionary. This is a place where language has a little more space to be explored and constructed freely, in the moment.

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Don’t post personal information. That includes obvious things like last names and addresses, but we will also remove definitions containing first names or user handles if they can be used to identify and target specific individuals for harassment.

Don’t be an asshole. We are okay with people defining offensive words. After all, people use offensive words in the real world and a resource for understanding what those words mean can be valuable. However, we are not—and never will be—okay with people using a definition to harass, discriminate, and/or directly incite violence against others.

What was the point of putting the Urban Dictionary content guidelines here if there's already just that at the top of the page though?

by TismoDito January 1, 2023

Guidelines

Guidelines are another way of saying rules, but more specifically said.

Please review Urban Dictionary's content guidelines before writing your definition.

by BiII Cipher April 25, 2023

Guidelines

A way to try and force people to behave in a way they've never behaved before while calling it a new normal.

The guidelines and restrictions were a totalitarian government taking shape.

by Solid Mantis December 1, 2020

Guidelines

Invisible strings and chains.

A group of people was trying to find out how much further they could go, how much more people would allow, how much longer it would take them to realize the crisis wasn't going to end without them fighting the folks behind the guidelines and restrictions.

by Solid Mantis December 1, 2020