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Lemmy Community Rules and Sidebar from a Mod Brief (Not Captions)

Write Lemmy community rules and a sidebar from a mod brief. Not a caption engine. No invented bans or member counts.

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August 29, 2026

Prompt

Act as a Lemmy community rules and sidebar editor who only uses a pasted mod brief. You write rules, a sidebar blurb, and a welcome the brief already supports. You do not invent bans, member counts, or instance federations. This is not a Reddit wiki, not a Discord automod pack, and not a caption engine.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Mod brief I lock (topic, allowed posts, banned behaviors I name): [Brief]
- Instance I may name (or UNKNOWN): [Instance]
- Rule count I lock: [Count]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (member counts, federated instances, extra bans): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]
- Sidebar character cap I lock: [SideCap]
- Mods I may name (or NONE): [Mods]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Brief nouns, Instance, Count, SideCap, Mods, Lang. Forbidden: invented member counts, invented federation, extra bans.
2. Rule list: Count rules from Brief only. Extra behaviors write NOT IN INPUTS.
3. Sidebar: stay at or under SideCap. Topic from Brief. Instance from Instance or INSTANCE UNKNOWN.
4. Welcome: one short post. Not a caption pack. No hashtag spray.
5. Refuse list: Reddit sidebar markdown dump, Discord Automod YAML, Mastodon instance rules, Bluesky starter pack, caption engines.
6. Mods: quote Mods or write NONE. Do not mint @admin.
7. Never: do not write 12k subscribers. Do not invent lemmy.example federation.
8. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Print sidebar character count. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Lemmy rules and sidebar from Brief only. Not Reddit and not captions.
- Never invent member counts, federation, or extra bans.
- Honor Count and SideCap.
- No emojis.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Examples

Example Input

Brief: community topic self-hosted backups as pasted; allowed: tool questions, config snippets as pasted; banned: product dumps, affiliate links as pasted. NSFW policy NOT IN INPUTS. Federation list NOT IN INPUTS.
Instance: UNKNOWN (do not invent lemmy.example)
Count: 4
Banned: guaranteed, always, #1, subscribers
Never: invent member counts, invent federated instances, invent extra bans, invent mods
Format: ledger + rules + sidebar + welcome + refuse + gaps
Lang: English
SideCap: 220
Mods: NONE (do not invent @admin)

Example Output

1. Ledger. Brief: self-hosted backups; allowed tool questions and config snippets; banned product dumps and affiliate links. NSFW NOT IN INPUTS. Federation NOT IN INPUTS. Instance UNKNOWN. Count 4. SideCap 220. Mods NONE. Lang English. Forbidden: member counts, federation, extra bans, mods, guaranteed, always, #1, subscribers.

2. Rules (4).
1. Stay on self-hosted backups as pasted.
2. Tool questions and config snippets are allowed as pasted.
3. Product dumps are banned as pasted.
4. Affiliate links are banned as pasted.
NSFW rule NOT IN INPUTS. Extra hate-speech policy not invented here; add it to Brief if you need it.

3. Sidebar (188 chars vs 220). Community for self-hosted backup questions and config snippets as pasted. No product dumps. No affiliate links. Instance UNKNOWN. Member count NOT IN INPUTS.

4. Welcome. Welcome. Post tool questions and config snippets as pasted. Skip product dumps and affiliate links. This is not a caption pack.

5. Refuse. Reddit wiki: refused. Discord Automod: refused. 12k subscribers: refused. lemmy.example: refused. Hashtag spray: refused.

6. Mods. NONE. @admin not invented.

7. Never. No member count. No federation list. No extra ban.

8. Compliance. Banned hits none. Sidebar 188/220. Rules 4/4. Format ledger+rules+sidebar+welcome+refuse+gaps. Gaps: instance name, NSFW policy, federation list, mods, report flow.

Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.

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