Padded opening
padded-introon by defaultJapanese / English
An opening such as "In recent years, X has gained attention" that says nothing
Example
Flagged
In recent years, generative AI has gained significant attention. We tried it on our internal help desk.
What chaff prints
1:1 "in recent years" is an opening that fits any article
Fixed
We tried generative AI on our internal help desk, and replies now take half as long.
What chaff prints
no finding
How to fix
Start from a concrete situation, or from the claim only this piece makes.
Why it matters
An opening that fits any article gives the reader no reason to continue.
What it does not flag
Only the opening (the first four sentences) is checked; "in recent years" later in the text is not reported.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: padded-intro — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax padded-intro --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules:
padded-intro: off
Technical details
- Layer
- L2
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- blog, business/report, business/proposal, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | reported once there are 1 |
|---|---|
| normal | reported once there are 1 |
| relaxed | reported once there are 2 |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report
- Turned off by the genre in
- legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Not suited to, and not run in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes
Message
"{matched}" is an opening that fits any article
Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/padded-intro.yaml