It's not though; it's Reddit's community. They give moderators the ability to do whatever they want with subreddits, but can (and not often enough do) get invol

It's not though; it's Reddit's community. They give moderators the ability to do whatever they want with subreddits, but can (and not often enough do) get involved when particular subreddits bring them bad publicity. So many of Reddit's moderation policies were created when the founders expected Reddit to be used very differently, and are sometimes absurdly simplistic.