It surprises me how much bad stuff is allowed to run without oversight.
It’s perfectly cool to experiment with code and try new things to see if it works. It’s stupid to do that with real things like the “Article Banner” or whatever Reddit has.
I’m sure there’s lots of complexity but I suspect there’s a decision being made to let things run and they haven’t set up the right checks and balances to see if it’s working.
If an established account has a submission flagged and blocked that should be really rare and either require a human to check it out, or to allow it and flag it for review.
Reddit gets tons of spam, I’m certain, but it’s probably not from real accounts or from sources that have a long history of their content being submitted without flags.
If a newspaper’s article is blocked automatically because the rule is too stupid, that’s too high impact of a failure condition.