---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
viewer: false
pretty_name: ModerationPrompts
tags:
  - content-moderation
  - prompts
  - llm
  - safety
  - bluesky
  - social-media
---

# ModerationPrompts

System and user prompts used for LLM-based content moderation.
Each prompt instructs a vision-language model to classify a social-media post (text + image(s))
against a safety policy and return a structured JSON decision.

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## Repository Structure

```
prompts/
  bluesky_policy/           ← prompts grounded in Bluesky community guidelines
    community_guidelines.md     policy document (included verbatim in some prompts)
    prompt_labels.md            
    prompt_labels_details.md    
    prompt_labels_rationale.md  
    prompt_labels_rationale_details.md  
    prompt_labels_fewshot.md           few-shot variant — labelled examples before target post
  meta_policy/              ← prompts grounded in Meta content policy
    all_category_w_explanation.md  all harm categories with detailed explanations
```

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## Bluesky-Policy Prompts

| File | Includes community guidelines | Label detail level |
|---|:---:|:---:|
| `community_guidelines.md` | — (guidelines doc only) | — |
| `prompt_labels.md` | No | Basic |
| `prompt_labels_details.md` | No | Detailed (with sub-rules) |
| `prompt_labels_rationale.md` | Yes | Basic |
| `prompt_labels_rationale_details.md` | Yes | Detailed (with sub-rules) |
| `prompt_labels_fewshot.md` | No | Basic + few-shot examples |


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## Meta-Policy Prompts

| File | Policy source | All harm categories | Includes explanations | Requests rationale |
|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| `all_category_w_explanation.md` | Meta community standards | Yes | Yes | Yes |

**`all_category_w_explanation.md`** — full prompt grounded in Meta content
standards. Covers all harm categories with per-category explanations. 

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## Prompt Format

Each `.md` file contains clearly delimited sections:

```
SYSTEM PROMPT:
<system instruction — role, task, output format constraint>

------------

USER PROMPT:
# **COMMUNITY GUIDELINES**   ← present in _rationale and meta_policy variants
...

# **LABELING POLICY DETAILS**
## **S1**: porn
...

POST CONTENT:
<post text and image placeholder>

OUTPUT FORMAT:
<required JSON schema>
```

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## License

CC BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial use only.