Mildly Infuriating
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I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
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I know a lot of subreddits like that have rules that you have to be part of the profession to post. Reason being that they don't want amateurs/etc to fill up the community with posts asking for advice, but instead want it to be a place for people in the profession to be able to talk to other professionals.
I can fully understand that approach, and how following that rule would directly lead to posts like this getting locked. At the same time, this is an interesting post and seems like it would have interesting discussion.
So basically this post probably breaks the written rules of the community, but is the kind of content that they wanted the rules to encourage. If it was my community I'd let the post stay (maybe with a mod comment on why it was allowed to stay up), but it's always risky to enforce the written rules inconsistently. I've seen a lot of communities get upset about inconsistent mods.
I would bet that there's a rule that not only says what you said, but redirects people to something like r/askplumbers or whatever for these kind of posts.
I haven't used reddit regularly since the API exodus, but I was part of plenty of communities like that. Mods can't allow exceptions because you'll get regulars complaining about the rule breaking content and new users complaining that their post was removed.
Like you said, they were mostly professional subreddits, but others had similar rules (like r/churning, but they were extra crazy. They'd require all discussion to be in specific threads so the content was less likely to be indexed by search engines).