Any recommendations for generic rules?

I’ve been creating communities that I noticed were missing, but didn’t add any rules or anything. Just focused on content creation.

Edit: I settled on this:

Rules:

  1. No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No NSFW content.
  4. No Ads / Spamming.
  5. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

Feel free to use it.

  • PhilEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    This is a very useful thread, I think I am not the only new mod, and some basic guides like this will prove invaluable imo

  • @DocMcStuffinEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Here’s a suggestion: Rule 0: Follow Mastodon.world code of conduct.

    Then add whatever you need for your community.

    • @_MoveSwiftlyOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I referred to the Code of Conduct for the join lemmy site.

  • @haelusnovakEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    At first I found skeletal communities strange and annoying, but now I consider them to be a way to quickly get a foundation. 🦴

    Do communities in a particular instance follow the rules of that instance? Maybe could copy-paste those or a link to those, if they exist? 🤔

    • @_MoveSwiftlyOPEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      I edited the post, found some generic rules and added that. :)