(Nerd-facing. Link from /facts and tool pages.)
Slop Index — signals
- Repetition: top bigram share (looping phrasing).
- Burstiness: variation in sentence length (too smooth = templated).
- Lexical diversity: type–token ratio.
- Clichés/100w: “unlock the power,” “game-changer,” etc.
- Hedges/100w: might, may, could, somewhat, likely…
- Buzz/100w: robust, scalable, ecosystem, platform…
- Passive/sentence: “was Xed (by).”
- Uniformity: paragraph word-count sameness.
- Too-simple grade: Flesch–Kincaid downweight when other signals fire.
Apology Template — gap audit
- Responsibility (first-person, past tense)
- Impact (who/what/when; exact times + TZ)
- Remedy (what changed now)
- Prevention (1–2 concrete steps)
- Make-good (refund/credit/next step)
- Timeline (date for follow-up)
- Contact (human inbox/URL)
- Tone traps flagged: weasels, hedges, passive, vague timing