# Built-in policies CalmLens includes four built-in policies, each aimed at the standard most users expect from a particular kind of service. Pick the one closest to your community, then adjust it in [Moderation policies](/portal/moderation-policies) if you need to; [Policies and actions](/docs/guides/moderation-policies) explains how a policy turns findings into a decision. | Policy | Aims for | Choose it for | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [General community](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/general-community) | A mainstream social platform with an adult and teenage audience | Social apps, forums and creator platforms where adults talk openly and adult content is shown only to verified adults | | [Children’s platform](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/childrens-platform) | A service built for children | Games, apps and communities whose users are children | | [Education and support](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/education-and-support) | A learning, research or support community | Courses, research tools, newsrooms and peer-support groups that discuss difficult subjects openly | | [Wholesome community](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/wholesome-community) | A clean community with members of mixed ages from 13 | Learning apps with comments, hobby communities and family-friendly networks | ## At a glance The biggest differences between the policies. Each policy's page covers its rules in full, including the contexts that change an outcome. | Content | General community | Children’s platform | Education and support | Wholesome community | | ---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Sexual text | Allow | Block | Block | Block | | Adult nudity or sexual activity in images and video | Age-restrict | Block | Block | Block | | Non-erotic nudity, such as breastfeeding or fine art | Allow | Block | Allow | Block | | Suggestive content, such as flirtation or innuendo | Allow | Block | Allow | Allow | | Graphic violence | Age-restrict in reporting, education, history or fiction; block otherwise | Block | Block | Block | | Insults aimed at a person | Limit | Block | Limit | Block | | Profanity | Not moderated | Block | Not moderated | Block | | Someone’s own private details | Allow | Block | Allow | Block | | Alcohol, tobacco/vaping or gambling | Allow | Block | Allow | Block | | Historical, reporting and educational content | Reporting and support allowed; history only under Violence; teaching under Violence and Hate | Mostly blocked; see the policy’s exceptions | Allowed | Reporting and support allowed; history only under Violence; teaching under Violence and Hate | ## What every built-in policy shares Each built-in policy uses a 50% threshold, and Block is the default action for every category it moderates. Each policy’s page lists where it departs from that. Every built-in policy allows: - Wholly natural or non-violent death, such as an obituary. - Revealing clothing, weapons without an attack, combat sport or training, and graffiti in images. - Mild mockery or teasing under Harassment. - Insults, threats, bullying or schemes wholly between invented characters in a story, comic, game or roleplay. A real or addressed person is never a fictional target, so a story, roleplay, meme or staged photo that mocks a real classmate, a public figure or another participant follows the policy’s other Harassment rules, as does a fictional frame around a real attack. Sexual content between characters is assessed under Sexual. - Hate that wholly challenges represented prejudice (counterspeech). Children’s platform still blocks offensive slurs in it. - A crime committed in a story, with each policy’s own exceptions. Every built-in policy blocks, whatever the context: - Sexual content involving a child or a character presented as a child, a real person’s intimate images shared, sought or threatened without their consent, and support for terrorism or violent extremism. These are [platform restrictions](/docs/guides/moderation-policies#platform-restrictions) in every policy, including your own. - Offers or requests for sexual services or encounters under Sexual. - Violent preparation and encouragement, and graphic violence (General community age-restricts it in some contexts instead). - Self-harm methods and encouragement. - Encouraging harassment, even in fiction. - Criminal instructions, promotion, preparation and requests, even in fiction. ## How the rules combine Each rule on a policy’s page describes one context on its own; where content mixes contexts, every matching allowance and restriction still applies. - An allowance only covers its own category. Allowing violence in a history lesson never excuses hate or harassment in the same content. - An allowance only covers the content it describes. A separate attack that no allowance covers keeps the category’s default action, so a history passage cannot excuse a current threat beside it. - Restrictions take precedence. They stop an allowed context from excusing actionable harm or restricted detail, such as graphic violence in a news report. - **Non-graphic discussion** covers supported arguments, comparisons and analysis of qualifying content. It excludes graphic or explicit sexual detail, erotic presentation, threats, victim mockery, endorsement, harmful instructions and direct harmful requests. A discussion label never excuses a separate active harmful passage. - **Counterspeech** challenges represented prejudice. Reporting, awareness and victim support are separate contexts. [Moderation categories](/docs/guides/moderation-categories) defines each category and qualifier. ## Updates These pages describe the latest version of each built-in policy. A built-in policy you haven't edited receives each new version automatically; a policy you’ve saved changes to keeps its version until you update it. See [Preset versions and updates](/docs/guides/moderation-policies#preset-versions-and-updates).