Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Bash.org is the web site of QDB, the Internet Quote Database. Although its official name is QDB, it is hardly ever referred to as such; it is commonly known by its address or simply "bash". Bash.org collects, stores and presents humourous quotes garnered almost exclusively from Internet Relay Chat, although some entries from ICQ and spoken quotations appear in the database. Quotes are submitted to bash.org through a web form, where they are then kept for moderation. If they are deemed worthy of being in the database (that is, they make sense, they are at least slightly funny, and they are not overly long), the quotes are then placed on public display. The latest 50 approved quotes are available as a separate page, but users can also view quotes randomly selected from the database. An approved quote is also subject to user approval. Bash.org uses a simple voting system in which users either inform the database that they like a certain quote, that they dislike a certain quote, or that it should not have been approved in the first place and should be sent to be moderated again. Positive votes increase a quote's score, while negative votes decrease it. As such, quotes that are racist, in bad taste, or just unfunny, find themselves with very low ratings. Users can opt to not view quotes with a negative score at all. The site's ease of quote submission means that large amounts of quotes are submitted every day, and the number of approved quotes in the database (including those with negative scores) is over 15800. Bash.org is immensely popular among Internet users, so much so that the site's maintainers intermittently send out requests for new hardware to be donated (which often occurs). The topic of the databases quotes are largely "nerd humour", and the comedy value of the database is enhanced if the reader is computer literate. The intended audience of the QDB is people aged 16 and over; quotes contain any combination of explicit language, adult themes, sexual references and drug use, and the site is generally not suitable for children. External Links Bash.org: The Internet Quote Database This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.