A ton of reddit communities are run by shills themselves. That's why users outright get downvoted and banned when they even are posting potentially winning content. We cannot act like everything is totally normal these days on Reddit. They're hemorrhaging users fast.
Just look up posts about people getting banned from reddit on Twitter or on black hat forums. There are tons of people complaining about it.
The thing about users getting entirely banned from a platform is that they aren't able to complain anywhere near to the forum about unfairness. It's all done in stealth.
Platform algorithms now often do a lot to keep dissent about platforms themselves and partner companies out of sight. It's pretty crazy how companies that publicly advocate equality and fairness serve to undermine speech when it's about their business.
There are such posts about each and every platform out there. In addition to not knowing what's the ban frequency, there's also no info in those complaints if they got banned for a good reason.
Last winter people got fed up with antivax-dewormer-nomasker bullshit and a lot of subreddits just took the trash out, so those complaints you saw might just be be those dumbasses.
I'm not saying there aren't annoying powertripping mods on Reddit, e.g. r/Linux, but there always tends to be an alternative subreddit one can use.
