I wouldn't reinvent the wheel and borrow r/Europe rules as a starting point.

Maybe do a little bit more proactive moderation to that community. r/Europe threads could sometimes go off the rails and had cleanup many hours later - I think it's OK to lock down before that happens (is locking posts a thing on Lemmy?).

Another approach is to keep rules simple and do a complete philosophy and rule walkthrough separately. I penned this monstrosity for polish subreddit back in the day (linking to archived version since I left since then and it got some meh updates in the meantime).

Yet another approach is to have a philosophy page like Tildes does. It's clear enough that you disallow assholery and bigotry but community like this definitely needs submission rules on top anyway.

Do you need a mod bot? I happen to have one: https://github.com/Dakkaron/SquareModBot

If you want additional features I'm happy to add them.

Thank you for your work! I also think the r/europe subreddit worked quite well mostly, at least from my experience, but how much that was due to moderation, i don't know. Maybe we could start with just some basic rules and allow some more vivid discussions and a variety of posts while the amount of posts and comments is still relatively low, and add more strict rules as time shows are necessary? Basic rules could be: no racism, no sexism and other discrimination, no violence, hate speech and offensive language, topics must be europe related, no advertising, things like that

I think this Community works really good. No Racism, No Fascism, Nice discussions, the User are mostly respectfull (I don't know how many User are getting banned)

What I Like about this Community are that every European writes News about Europe and his state. But I think some Posts from the Mods would Help to make this Community even greater. More discussion rounds about big and new themes of Europe. Maybe some Posts to Events of different cultures in Europe, where we (the User) could tell about our cultures. I think it would make the European Community better to Talk sometimes a little bit, only for fun.

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Sorry for my english (:

I support copying r/europe's rules, maybe removing some disallowed submitions, like 1b, 1c, 4, 8b for Fediverse posts, 8c, 9 and 14 for european-related petitions. I also believe that the submission guidelines aren't needed with the traffic level of this community.

As for the process for new moderators, here's a post from r/europe from when they did it. Also, I volunteer to be moderator.

Everything has to be pro Europe and not violate laws.