Reject nonsense, inside jokes or anything submitted in capital letters. Racial and sexual slurs are allowed, racist and sexist entries are not.' Īt the start of 2014, 32-year-old Peckham resided in San Francisco, U.S, and, while he did not reveal exact figures, he informed the media that the site was 'stable and growing', and generated enough profit for both him and the site's maintenance. Peckham continued as the site's sole employee and maintained that he was not interested in venture funding or an initial public offering (IPO): 'It is weird to be in Silicon Valley and want to be independent and not be on track to IPO or want an acquisition. But I think something special would be sacrificed if that were to happen.' Īs of January 5, 2014, 50% of the site's traffic was mobile and the iPhone app had been downloaded nearly three million times.
Although English entries were by far the most common prior to the multilingual transition, some words from languages that have been incorporated or assimilated into English-speaking societies were published, including those from Swahili, Arabic, and the Fula languages.
