I think you need to re-read my post again, Hydra. I never said that the UD wasn't valuable.
my suggestion to Dale was that he do a bit more digging before he asked a question about a word. I was trying to offer an answer to z's response to Dale.

and I thoughtfully disagree: 3500+ words a week is a lot of new words/defs. and I offer that most of those words will not make it into the vocabularies of the general populace.

as far as voting is concerned, who is doing the voting? are we sure it's not mostly the same folks who submitted the word? just asking.

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