The problem with reddit right now is that community managers are rather ineffective at actually handling the community which leads to the other employees of reddit (engineers) to finally step in. The only time when reddit does usually act is when there are some serious legal implications. This is what often leads to the reddit administrator's actions to be labeled as arbitrary.
Although, as of recently the reddit administrators started banning some of the more racist subreddits even though they didn't have any official change in policy.
Although, as of recently the reddit administrators started banning some of the more racist subreddits even though they didn't have any official change in policy.