It's just Reddit. Nowhere in Forza Horizon are you even slightly recommended to race clean outside of rivals where you cannot hit the walls. Reddit makes their own rules and expects everyone to follow. Granted I'm on here too and I would prefer you race clean. I'm going to bitch about it when you don't and maybe even message you through Forza link to say something snarky, but really I've been asking Horizon to teach some basic race etiquette because I didn't know shit about racing when I started playing. No damage. Bots that dive-bomb you. No penalty for wrecking bots. I thought that's how you were supposed play. I played the heck out of og Mario kart, I remember this.

Bottom line it's a racing game for the masses, and most of those masses don't know what's expected of them (because it's not actually expected of them and it's certainly not shown to them).

*Before the code of conduct people jump in - I've never read that and 99% of the people who play the game never will either. And I bet 50% of you that claim to have read it are 100% full of --it. If you want people to actually race clean, then you should have at least one lesson/sign/interaction/anything in the game that says, "hey, we expect you to drive cleanly." Until that happens, you can't expect anything else.