There was a rule for doxxing: it was something like "personally identifying information about a person who didn't want that information revealed."

And creepshots largely didn't meet the definition of that rule, because no one knew who the people in the pictures were.

Now, you can certainly wish the rule were something that would have blocked creepshots and doxxing. Like "information about anyone that they don't want a bunch of strangers on the Internet reading."

Reddit has tried to turn over the decisions about what to allow to a rule-based system instead of having to have any human discretion involved. I can see the appeal in wanting that (any google search for "technical solution for social problem" will describe why people keep on trying it), but it leads to things that obviously look absolutely crazy to outsiders.

Reddit probably needs to grow up and have some human discretion involved. It is going to collapse under its own weight without that.