documentation/content/en/entities/Rule.md

---

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",

]

Example

{
	"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."
}

Attributes

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

See also

{{< page-relref ref="methods/instance#rules" caption="GET /api/v1/instance/rules" >}}

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{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/serializers/rest/rule_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/rule_serializer.rb" >}}