Reddit is a website designed back in the early 2000s and it shows ideas from that era of the internet. The idea of the subreddits is that anyone can create their own interest groups with mods and rule it as they see fit. Each subreddit can establish their own rules and sometimes it takes a nonsensical or oppressive turn. There are also reddit corporate mods that can ban you from the website as a whole for hate speech or harrasment, but I digress. Anyway, the expected response to dealing with a sucky subreddit is to find a new one that covers the same subject. Usually there are multiple subreddits for almost every subject. There's always a counter culture version of any large subreddit with chiller mods. This idea that all reddit mods are oppresive nerds is false.