[riffic]

as a mod of some niche medium engagement/high quality subs, I still link to the self-promo guidelines because while they're no longer updated, they give the clearest example towards how not to use Reddit.

Mods have full discretion though, that's the gist of this entire thread. As someone with a 16 year old reddit account I've seen a lot of bad moderators though.

[fluidcruft]

Well, yeah. Generally I've learned to just not care what happens on reddit. Moderators do whatever they want and jerk you around if you ask sincere questions. It's not worth pretending or expecting anything else. And it's not like mods are paid either, so you can't really fault anyone because nobody really knows the reality of everything going on in the subreddit. It's just how it works.