Two things come to my mind, the first one being limiting referral links being to a dedicated thread or pointing people towards meta-dog. Afaict there hasn’t been a spam issue with that yet, but it seems to make sense and it probably wouldn’t hurt to put that in the sidebar.

I’m a believer in bare basics on rules. For a forum/online community, all the standards of no harassment, don’t be a dick, no -ist or -phobic speech, no spamming (with optional addition of advertising), along with keeping posts relevant to the topic of said community is really all there needs to be.

And in terms of what is on-topic, “Virtual Reality” is a broad enough topic that there really shouldn’t be a helluva lot more rules than just being relevant to VR.

The second one that I’d personally consider is getting rid of Meta-hate spam comments on unrelated posts.

It’s an understandable point of view to not like Meta and probably shared by the majority of people, but most of the time these comments don’t add anything, they don’t spark a discussion, they’re not even criticism, they’re just dull comments with insults distracting from the actual topic at hand.

My suggestion would be to remove them and let people know that they’re free to start a dedicated post with an actual critique or topic.

So far this little part of Lemmy has been running great and growing.

I mod a sub and my montra is less is best. A few basic ones to the tune of stay on topic and be civil. You don’t want rules to negatively impact community engagement.

Light touch.