Ok so those mods may well be compromised for all I know, in fact I find it likely just because it's reddit. Also reddit interprets it's TOS loosely if they don't like your sub and you can bet reddit does not like r/conspiracy. But reddit is also in a bit of a bind because they can't easily ban all talk of conspiracy which is wide ranging and has been a basic subject topic on the internet since the internet was created. If they banned that sub, there would be and probably already are 100s of replacements. People would just go from the main sub to all those. If reddit tried to ban all those, ti would make a bigger Orwellian looking splash than they'd probably like. Reddit's other solution would be to heavily threaten and/or compromise the existing sub as much as possible . So I would not be surprised if the sub's mods are either shilling for reddit or they are under pressure to be very very strict.

Also from my own experience as a mod, we typically just don't have enough life force to dig through hours of conversation that happened a month ago and explain every nuance of our thought process to you, especially if it was from another mod. It also does happen that other mods make decisions that I would not make. There are a lot of situations that are a grey area on enforcement. It's very hard to find mods that are not giant axxholes but also can tolerate the constant barrage of threats and insults and occasional stalkings that come from being a mod, all while not even getting paid. So I can't really nitpick every decision if I slightly disagree on something or I'd have to do that whole job myself. And I also can't tell you what exact nuance of rules or narrative you could or could not get away in the future across all moderators. We try to have an overall agreement with what is and is not allowed but each one of us has a unique brain that interprets things.

There are even times when I am feeling crabby late at night and am more of an axxhole and then in the morning I think about how I should have handled something better. There are also LOTS AND LOTS of times when I try to be really patient explaining things to complaining people only to eventually get shxt on and insulted and threatened anyway if they don't get or hear what they want. This is why experienced mods typically won't give you a long conversation, the decision is done, we are not going to risk a fight with other mods over a nuance and we know from experience that 9 out of 10 times, the person will just curse us in the end anyway, even if we spend 2 hours of our unpaid time trying to address their issue.

Certainly it's not a perfect system and I apologize to the universe for any wrong decisions I have made and toes i have stepped on over the years as mod but the reality is that these days a much larger percentage of users are somewhere between difficult to deal with and bat shxt freaking insane and there is just a limit as to how much time a mod has to spend on one person's complaint when there are 20 other issues a day that also need to be dealt with. So maybe think about a bit of compassion for mods too.