title: Rule description: Represents a rule that server users should follow. menu: docs:
parent: entities
aliases: [
"/entities/rule",
"/entities/Rule",
"/api/entities/rule",
"/api/entities/Rule",
{
"id": "2",
"text": "No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, or casteism.",
"hint": "Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited. Promotion of \"conversion therapy\" is strictly prohibited. Criticism of governments and religions is permissible unless being used as a proxy for discrimination."
}
id
{#id}Description: An identifier for the rule.\ Type: String (cast from integer, but not guaranteed to be a number)\ Version history:\ 3.4.0 - added
text
{#text}Description: The rule to be followed.\ Type: String \ Version history:\ 3.4.0 - added
hint
{#hint}Description: Longer-form description of the rule.\ Type: String \ Version history:\ 4.3.0 - added
{{< page-relref ref="methods/instance#rules" caption="GET /api/v1/instance/rules" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/models/rule.rb" caption="app/models/rule.rb" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/serializers/rest/rule_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/rule_serializer.rb" >}}