Growth and community questions

By "site cohesiveness", I mean that the general population were keen on general free speech even to a point where it was every knee-jerk thing that couldn't be said elsewhere (which itself is a result of sociopolitical pressures both online and in real life). By "sub cohesiveness," you have very few subs which call users together into a group or sub-community which would survive migration or site shutdown (or PC throught police or whatever else you can think of). Consider on reddit that many towns and states have their own subs where users actually meet up, help each other, trade and sell. Voat has no such thing except for a few rare subs which share in group activities such as playing music, watching movies, and general tomfoolery, and of course the traditional wives sub. I honestly think that niche subs should be able to do what they want in terms of rules within reason. If you need a wiki to explain your rules, you're doing it wrong. Hence the number of rules a sub should implement should be limited to, say, 4 (just a random low number) which would force them to put only the most important rules of community behavior on the block for enforcement. For example: no trolls, no submissions from site X, all submissions must be on topic, submissions must include "X" in the title. That makes it easy to cause site-wide free speech while providing subs a modicum of control. It also makes it *very* easy for subs to group together and gain a cohesiveness because, just like cooks in the kitchen, too many rules spoils the sub.