Then let the community downvote weak content instead of blocking all Tesla articles. Its really a desperate move to block something like Tesla in a technology

Then let the community downvote weak content instead of blocking all Tesla articles. Its really a desperate move to block something like Tesla in a technology forum because of the occasional link-bait. 99% of reddit's success is based on users knowing what they like and upvoting good stuff and downvoting bad stuff. One of reddit's larger issues is that weak stuff does sometimes get upvote, but the top comment in the thread is almost always a pretty fair criticism of why that article sucks. This is true of almost all subreddits and not something unique to /r/technology. To be fair, a lot of the "allowed" content under these mod rules isn't much better. Cherry picking Tesla linkbait as justification for these heavy-handed rules really isn't fair.