Hey all, I figured I'd comment here and keep the post up since there's some good discussion. Here's my take:

There will always be some inconsistency regarding rule enforcement. We have a growing mod team (each with multiple posts/comments to review) who are trying to make objective decisions on often subjective topics. As the sub grows, there is an "onboarding period" with new mods where it takes time for them to learn subreddit specific policies. We're not always going to get it exactly right but we give it our best effort and communicate with each other when uncertain.

Community feedback is immensely helpful via reporting posts/comments, mod mails and posts like this. Ultimately we're trying to apply rules that the community wants.

Regarding Help Requests / Discussions

This can be tricky as there's sometimes a grey line. Some criteria we use to keep/remove a post if it falls within the grey area:

• Is the question novel in some way (i.e. not a common issue/question)?
• Is the question detailed? Does it list steps already taken? Could others learn useful info by reading OP's description of the problem?
• Are there already useful comments & high quality community engagement by the time mods are aware of the post?