Huge praise for lemmy not being overrun with each sub having different rules than the others. Big subreddits have like 14 unique rules. Why does lemmy not have so many rules?

@pingveno@lemmy.ml

I’ve moderated a sub for a while, /r/moderatepolitics. In the beginning, we just had one rule: no personal attacks. That was manageable with a small sub. But then we noticed certain behavior with a negative effect. We started requiring a starter comment to deter people from dropping a large amount of articles. We restricted meta comments to meta threads to avoid derailing. Glorifying violence was banned. Conversation of trans issues was banned due to a conflict with Reddit’s admins.

We are now larger than Lemmy by subscriber count. We had to adapt or collapse under our own weight.

@meloo

r/moderatepolitics on reddit?

@pingveno@lemmy.ml

Yeah, that’s the one.

@meloo

That sub is huge! Link to c/moderatepolitics in the sidebar on reddit?

@pingveno@lemmy.ml

I have been plugging the idea. So far no consensus among the moderators on linking it.

@meloo

there was a similar problem involving /c/antiwork and r/antiwork i believe

@sexy_peach@feddit.de

I think it’s because most subs are small and not moderated with a lot of effort

@DefNotPizza@lemmy.ml

Probably because there are not many users so there isn’t the need for many different rules or specific ones

mekhos

Well there have been sub’s with almost twice that number of rules…but that user is no longer on Lemmy.

Liwott

I think federation helps in that the instance already has its rules, and you are not happy with them you can just create your community elsewhere