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1. Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 11:00:00 EST Eugen

   It would be cool if there was a machine-readable way to represent various Mastodon server rules.

   Then they could not only be filtered by such rules on directories like instances.social, but apps could display summaries when displaying a sign up screen.

   I imagine it might work a bit like rubocop rule names (e.g. "Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment") but I don't know how practical this idea is. Don't take this as me planning to do it, just sharing thoughts.

   1. binfalse (martin@mstdn.binfalse.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Dec-2018 15:30:03 EST binfalse

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      @Gargron
      And users could select the rule, which was broken, when reporting a toot

   2. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 12:54:53 EST Ted Gould

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      @Gargron I think the other advantage is that you have to make a schema of some type, and that would give new admins some guidance and ideas on what to limit or ban on their servers.

      Also, the fact that they could be translated would probably help in some situations.

      Of course, you'll always need an "other" for extra stuff.