Purpose
What the community is for—and what is outside scope.
Moderation guide
Community guidelines: make the desired behavior obvious.
Create community guidelines that set expectations for relevance, respect, self-promotion, privacy, moderation, and useful participation without becoming a legalistic wall of text.
Guidelines should help members participate, not merely protect admins
Write rules around the situations members will actually encounter. Explain what useful participation looks like, where promotion belongs, how disagreements should be handled, and what moderators will do when boundaries are crossed.
Six topics to cover
Respect
How members should disagree, critique, and communicate.
Promotion
Whether links, pitches, recruiting, and affiliate posts are allowed.
Privacy
What should not be shared outside the group without permission.
Quality
What counts as low-effort, repetitive, misleading, or irrelevant posting.
Moderation
How warnings, removals, bans, and appeals are handled.
Keep the public version readable
A concise main policy can link to longer legal or privacy terms where needed. The goal is a standard members can remember and moderators can apply consistently.
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