Rules

Rules

The full rule inventory. Each rule ID is namespaced slopless/<rule-name> in textlint output.

Metrics:

• avg-sentence-length: average sentence length above 24 words.
• paragraph-length: paragraphs over 6 sentences.
• word-repetition: one non-trivial word repeated over 5 times.
• flesch-kincaid: Flesch Reading Ease below 61.
• gunning-fog and coleman-liau: grade scores above 12.

Orthography:

• colon-dramatic: short reveals after a colon, such as And then: everything changed.
• em-dashes: closed em dashes.
• exclamation-density: more than 1 exclamation mark per paragraph.
• fake-timestamps: clock specificity, such as 5:47 PM.
• sentence-case: title-case headings.
• smart-quotes: curly quotes.

Phrases and words:

• cliches: stock phrases, such as at the end of the day.
• corporate-speak: business filler and empty abstraction, such as move the needle or plays a crucial role.
• hedge-stacking: stacked hedges, such as might perhaps.
• humble-bragger: credential lead-ins, such as in my experience.
• jargon-faker: borrowed tech metaphors, such as debug your morning.
• llm-disclaimer: assistant leakage, such as as an AI language model or my knowledge cutoff.
• llm-vocabulary: common AI diction, such as delve.
• prohibited-phrases and prohibited-words: package-owned banned lists.
• redundancy: repeated-meaning phrases, such as repeat again.
• recommended-terms and required-terms: configured missing terms.
• simplicity: complex words with simple replacements, such as utilize.
• skunked-terms: contested broad-use terms.
• uncomparables: impossible modifiers, such as very unique.
• wordiness: padded phrases, such as due to the fact that.

Academic slop:

• tortured-phrases: known machine-paraphrased academic phrases, such as counterfeit consciousness.

Narrative slop:

• narrative-cliches: stock generated-fiction gestures, such as heart pounded in her chest.

Semantic thinness:

• semantic-thinness: low-information templates, such as Something shifted in the room.

Syntactic patterns:

• affirmation-closers: empty certainty endings, such as and that is the key.
• authority-padding: soft authority padding, such as research shows.
• blame-reframe: blame-to-insight reframes, such as the problem is not X, it is Y.
• boilerplate-conclusion: generic endings, such as in conclusion.
• boilerplate-framing: generic setup, such as when it comes to.
• contrastive-aphorism: slogan contrasts, such as not faster, but smarter.
• demonstrative-emphasis: vague this is what emphasis.
• empty-emphasis: unsupported importance claims, such as this matters.
• false-question: rhetorical questions, such as isn't that what we all want?
• fragment-stacking: clipped cadence, such as Too broad. Too vague. Too late.
• generic-signposting: generic transitions, such as it is important to note.
• lesson-framing: lesson extraction, such as the lesson is.
• llm-openers: generic openers, such as the important thing is.
• negation-reframe: not X. It is Y. constructions.
• observer-guidance: reader-instruction frames, such as notice how.
• response-wrapper: chat wrappers, such as let's delve into or please let me know.
• softening-language: vague softeners, such as in many ways.
• summative-closer: summary payoff lines, such as that is what makes it work.
• triple-repeat: repeated sentence openers, such as It is X. It is Y. It is Z.
• universalizing-claims: broad claims, such as everyone knows.