Hi, GD Mod here.
We actually had this planned for quite a bit because we want GD to grow. We've been working with a Rioter to open up the community so it's less "dead." When I say "dead", I mean we have quite a few people! However even with quite a few people, we felt like it'd be nice to have some new faces, and new faces means we have to have easier access.
Pretty much all of the Universal Rules still apply, the really only false one being "name and shame" -which still exists-, just, we're extra careful about that rule because we poke fun at each other harmlessly with joke call out threads. (In humor, specifically on GD, it's fine so long as everyone is enjoying it and the person called out isn't offended).
We still don't allow targeted harassment, we still don't allow racism, we still don't allow overtly sexualized content (however we have been opening up on the "sexy" rule due to more than one reason, but still, keep it within reason), and we actually -did- close down discussions of religion and politics. So in that regard we actually "cleaned it up some."
GD has had its own special culture for many many many years now, and it's something we're passionate about. We're overall pretty cool people though, aside from a couple bad apples which i help handle. But there's plenty of shiny nice awesome apples too.
Apple girl is still banned however.