The rule
Every published post must carry more than 35% nouns. Not adjectives, not verbs, not filler. Nouns: people, places, concepts, objects, ideas.
A social network with one constraint
Think in nouns.
Write with intention.
What happens when we change the rules of conversation? verbthinking.app is a social network where every post must contain more than 35% nouns. A small linguistic constraint. A different way of thinking.
Strictly > 35.0%Min. 8 wordsServer-validated
Noun-density checkerserver analysis
48.3%nouns
14 / 29 wordsAbove the 35% threshold — ready to publish.
citylibraryreadingroomTuesdayResidentsstoneentrancebooksnotebookspetitionsspace
Try it — nothing is published from this box
The analysis
Each draft is parsed and part-of-speech tagged on the server. Noun density is measured across eligible words — URLs, emoji, punctuation and standalone numbers are excluded.
The consequence
Constraints change composition. Write for the noun count and you begin to name things precisely, and to argue with subjects rather than adverbs.
Thirty-five percent is the whole argument.
The threshold is strict. A draft at exactly 35.0% is refused; 35.1% is published. There is no override, no exception for eloquence, and no way around it from the client.
30.0% nounsrejected
35.0% nounsrejected
35.1% nounsaccepted
60.0% nounsaccepted