I think these tools are good for moderators of communities to create a community they want to run. Lemmy needs that to grow the niche communiy.

In your example, these look like the rules for request for assistance community, begging basically. It’s reasonable that the moderators want to reduce the volume of begging, to people involved in the Reddit community, who have a good standing.

It would be the same if a local community group, prioritize the needs of their local active members in need, before opening the floodgates to the world.

There is also a reality, online, that people will automate request for free money, and basically spam until they get negative money. So without those submission requirements, the sub would be flooded to the point where it wouldn’t be useful to anybody to get any assistance.

So to sum up, we may not like the individual community rules, but the moderators need the tools so that they can moderate and grow the community they want