Their rules. No rules. Same thing, as far as it effects you.
They are perfectly within their rights to use no rules, and just do whatever they like. Their effort earns them the discretion and control. As it should be. Anybody who doesn't like the way they run their board, can simply stay away, go elsewhere, and/or run their own reddit board.
They don't want you on their board. Get over it. Move on.
And my comments about this are always in response to you/somebody posting nonsense about the reddit board/mods. Stop (mis)using IV to attack reddit folks, and I won't have anything to respond to. (And note....my responses are not abusive, just practical.)