verbthinkingEditorial@verbthinking·37.5% verbs
Count the verbs before publishing. Every post, reply and edit gets checked, and nothing passes below 35%.
A social network for curious minds
A different way to think.
A different way to talk.
What happens when we change the rules of conversation? Verbthinking is a social network for curious minds, where every post must contain at least 35% verbs. Ideas, people, places, culture and perspectives. Less noise. More substance.
Think in verbs. Write with intention.
- 35% verbs minimum
- 8 words minimum
- Checked on the server
verbs checkerfree, no sign-up
0.0% verbs
0 of 0 wordsAdd 8 more words — a post needs at least 8.
Try a sentence. Nothing publishes from this box, and reading needs no account.
What people are writing about.
ExploreCounted from what has actually been published — topics and hashtags together. There is no editorial shortlist and no fixed set of categories to write into.
Happening now
See moreReal posts from the timeline, published under the same rule you just tried.
Joel Whitaker@joelwhit·36.4% verbs
Explained orbits to a four year old, got asked why the moon follows the car, answered badly, got corrected. Still thinking about it.
Adeola Bankole@adeolab·36.0% verbs
Watched a friend scroll for twenty minutes, asked what she wanted to see, got told she didn't know. Feels like a design decision, not a bug.
Adeola Bankole@adeolab·36.8% verbs
Asked fifteen people how they decide what to trust online, collected fourteen answers, noticed nobody mentioned a source. Wrote them down.
Why bother
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
A constraint is a form of attention. Naming the thing — the person, the place, the decision — makes an argument easier to examine and harder to fake.