Paste your text. Find the slop. Write like a human.
SlopScanner is a browser-based implementation of SlopGuard v0.3.1, a rule-based prose linter created by Eric W. Tramel, Ph.D. It runs ~95 compiled patterns against your text and scores it 0-100. No AI judges your writing - just pattern matching.
Smart quotes and curly apostrophes are normalized automatically so text pasted from websites, Google Docs, or Word matches patterns correctly. RTF files are extracted to plain text on upload.
Read the full story: Slop Guard: Prose Linter for AI-Assisted Writing.
~80 overused words and ~50 stock phrases statistically overrepresented in LLM output.
Bold-header blocks, bullet runs, triadic lists, bold-term bullets, blockquotes-as-thesis, horizontal rule overuse.
Sentence length variance, em dash density, elaboration colon density. Human writing is jagged; AI is a metronome.
Repeated use of the same tic costs exponentially more. The clustering is the signal.
| Score | Band | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 80–100 | Clean | Reads like a human wrote it. Ship it. |
| 60–79 | Light | A few patterns. Worth a second look. |
| 40–59 | Moderate | Noticeable AI fingerprints. Revise before sharing. |
| 20–39 | Heavy | Clearly formulaic. Needs significant rewriting. |
| 0–19 | Saturated | Wall-to-wall slop. Start over. |