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Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It's almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.
Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it's really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.
I'm still fucking pissed off, a Reddit mod banned me sitewide for a week for mocking someone using windows on a steam deck, fuck it, I deserved it, BUT SITEWIDE AND FOR A FUCKING WEEEEK
That dude absolutely deserved to get mocked. What he did is the definition of heresy.
I don't know what subreddits you were on, but on the ones I'm a member of, it doesn't looks like r/ is seen as a bad thing.
It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.
The mod situation has always been strange. Mods can NEVER be changed once a community is made (unless a super mod gets involved). Makes it easy for individuals to control entire communities without any say within the communities themselves (within reddit).
Lemmy is a bit better as you can just up and leave an instance community that is being strange. But its a similar issue. Voting per year (or just periodically) a mod could have good results...if done right. Im actually not sure what the best way to do it is, but having overlord mods is not the correct way thats for sure.
Unfair + bizarre
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it's not really an issue. There I'd usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.