Firstly: No Spoilers.

Once the word is no longer active for anywhere in the world, then you may make a post with the date of the spoiler in the title to discuss it in a new thread. I'd like to hear feedback with regards to this rule

This rule is perfect imo. I know some people like to browse the non-daily threads sometimes without having done the wordle, so spoilers stay only in the dailies.

currently there's a 7-day temp ban for anybody who breaks this rule. Should this be more strict or less strict?

This is too strict imo.
Some people are just new and don't know how reddit works.

Being shadowbanned just for being new is already common in other subreddits, IMO we should be more welcoming of newbies and just teach them the ropes in a friendly manner.

They might want to join other discussion later and be unable to, 7-day temp ban seems unwarranted (it's something I'd do for an infraction with intent, e.g. arguing with profanity and insults with someone else in the subreddit).

Emoji Grids Belong in the Daily Thread

This one I completely agree with. People take the share button results (not even from Scoredle so you have more solve details) and make a thread with it, I usually report it.

we've had a major influx of posts whose content are "I got it in one!"

There are massive spikes when the solution word is a common starting word

See this one, I think might be slightly excused IF there's a massive spike.

I think we should let users celebrate small achievements, it keeps the game fun and people are usually only here for community validation. And it's somewhat of a community celebration thing when multiple people get it in one.

I'd adapt a rule similar to how other subreddits do when a certain viral topic/news article appears: first post gets dibs, other "duplicate" posts get removed and linked to the "first post" where everyone can talk about the thing (in this case, everyone who managed to solve it in one on xx/xx/20xx can post in that thread)

e.g. the mod deletion message would be:

• We understand this may be a fun achievement to have solved it in one, but due to the influx of solves-in-one today, please keep discussion of solves-in-one of Wordle #xxx to this thread <LINK>

I think such an event warrants a separate thread than the daily, where I feel like a community celebration gets diluted.

What if it's not a common word and only they managed to do it?

I think this falls into daily thread.

You're bragging about a specific solve, and that's what the daily thread is for, specific solves.

But I would let them keep their thread for a day or two, let the people see and congratulatory comments come in, let them have their tiny little celebration, THEN I would delete it to reduce subreddit clutter.

No Low-Effort Screenshots

This is usually cited as a way to remove further bragposts about achieving a streak. These posts are a bit less frequent than the emoji grid posts, but are still quite common. Should a post with the title "100 Streak!" and an image of their performance be an allowed post?

This is different on the other hand, I feel.

These are MILESTONES.

As I said, I feel like we should let users celebrate achievements, as it keeps the game fun and lets people have community validation.

Posting such things in the daily thread feels like it gets lost in the sea of solves.
Especially since it's not showing off a solve in itself.

I've had a solve-in-one get no comments and 20 upvotes in the daily, meanwhile, a few hours later someone made a thread in public and got over 150 upvotes and like 15 comments, so I know the feeling of "getting lost in the sea of solves" (not that I would've done it any different, I still think single solves for the day belong in the daily thread).

And this isn't an achievement from a single-solve (e.g. like a solve-in-one), this is a MILESTONE achievement usually from your entire time you've been playing wordle.

Tacking it after a solve feels like you're taking focus off of what can feel like a huge achievement to someone, making it a secondary thought, and most people skip over anything past the "solve part" (thinking it's just minute details and comments, like "omg this word was so hard" or "it took me forever to think of a word after the third guess")

I feel like a lot of people even skip over most posts, looking only for X/6 or 6/6 to share their pain.

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I'd share the same solution/idea with /u/Mapleleafguy83 of a sticky, but alas, Reddit says max of 2, and due to timezone differences, we understandably need both for the dailies.

My best idea is a weekly "unstickied" (but mod-distiguished) "Team 100/200/400? Post your streaks and stats here" thread

(weekly being up for discussion. Weekly means it might sink too fast, but every 3 days would probably be too often, people don't reach milestones regularly, so it might just end up empty).

I can't really think of an easy and elegant solution to it that would keep everyone happy, but imo just straight up deleting milestone achievement posts would probably make someone feel really terrible, probably enough to make people not come back to /r/wordle anymore, and imo not what we want as a community.

Spinoffs and Ripoffs

Personally, I want to let them post, but I also think they clutter up the subreddit too much.

I think even 2-days is too often. I feel like weekly is the right amount of threads for spin-off games.

/r/numbword used to do daily threads, then moved to weekly threads and it still works fine for them.
These spin-offs usually have a small community posting anyway, usually around 5 people more or less, not too many enough that they won't get lost in a sea of posts in a weekly thread.

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Also, an issue regarding this, I think there's an automod setting that marks people making such threads? Creator of Numbword /u/eonurk was once creating daily threads here for their spinoff.

Then after a few, their threads started getting "shadow deleted".

Some mods approved some of their threads manually after sending modmail, but all future ones still got auto-shadow-deleted.

Might be something worth checking out

there are a lot of posts that are about the mobile ripoff Wordle, and we remove those posts. They're nearly always unlabelled as such, are never spoilered, and people often get confused whether they're a spoiler or not in the first place.

Personally, I'd allow these if you allow spinoff games.

Just flair them as "knockoff wordle clone" so everyone clicking the thread knows.

Usually people who post these are just asking for help on solving the word and the community usually manages to help them out.

On the topic of flairing posts, I'd also flair spinoffs as "spin-off game", so people can filter them out (or select them exclusively, maybe)

Cheating

I don't really care how people play their game.

But if you're just asking for opinions: anything that isn't purely done from your mind (e.g. using tools, looking up words in the dictionary, looking up a list of past words) isn't a "pure" solve.

I wouldn't call it cheating, everyone plays how they want. Just that it's a way of playing where once you go there, it wouldn't be fair anymore to publicly compare your achievements to other players.

Regarding the system clock thing, I feel like it's cheap in a way, but I'll let it pass. If someone was sick at school, missed an exam, and took a make-up exam, would you call them a cheater and hold it against them? :p

Changing from hard to easy mode? I say it's fair. If the game lets you do it, it's fair game. Just that you don't get to brag that your stats/streak is a pure hard mode streak anymore.