Reddit's administration team a bunch of hypocrites at best.

Gawker journalist Adrian Chen (or Adrian802 on reddit) remains the only redditor to openly dox another redditor (Violentacrez) and entirely get away with it. No shadowban, no site-wide ban of Gawker Media domains, nothing. In fact, the only banning of Gawker Media domains came from the mod level and from how many Gawker Media links I see on various subreddits these days, my guess is that they dropped said policy after a few weeks or months.

For hosting a number of pornographic, troll and legal-grey-area subreddits - many of which were shut down over a year prior after the threat of a SomethingAwful and /r/ShitRedditSays sponsored press mailbombing campaign forced the admins to change their policies on sexualised content of minors - Mr Brutsch was fired from his programming job which mainly provided for the care of him and his sick wife, was internationally shamed by a few reputable news websites and became a national pariah to other Americans as news networks began to report on his antics under the Violentacrez pseudonym.

Then there's /r/Niggers, a racist, xenophobic, downright crude and hurtful subreddit that used to regularly brigade reddit threads, post offensive comments towards other users and whatnot. It was shut down for 'vote manipulation' after reddit got a bit of press negativity for its existence. However, other subreddits that actively engage in manipulating comment scores such as ShitRedditSays, SubredditDrama, AgainstMensRights, and Bestof haven't even been threatened for their actions. MensRights was but the admins seemed content with them making a few rule changes to prevent more vote manipulation. There's also suspicion that the admins were colluding with SRS because one of the admins who later left reddit (Intortus) is now a moderator on SRS.

In reality, the admins could and should have shut it down for breaching the Personal Information rule which has been further clarified as follows in the FAQ:

NO. reddit is a pretty open and free speech place, but it is not ok to post someone's personal information, or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible. We all get outraged by the ignorant things people say and do online, but witch hunts and vigilantism hurt innocent people and certain individual information, including personal info found online is often false. Posting personal information will get you banned. Posting professional links to contact a congressman or the CEO of some company is probably fine, but don't post anything inviting harassment, don't harass, and don't cheer on or vote up obvious vigilantism.

Had the admins actually enforced this rule? We'd see a lot of other subreddits like ShitRedditSays, SubredditDrama, AgainstMensRights, PCMasterRace, Cringe, Cringepics, Circlejerk, TheRedPill, MensRights and a lot of others face the chopping block unless they change their behaviour and rules. We would have also seen /r/Niggers get shut down much sooner.

Back to the subject of 'posting your own content', two weeks ago a website called OnGamers and several of its journalists - including Rod "Slasher" Breslau - were banned from reddit over this rule and vote manipulation. Yes, they did submit quite a bit of their own content and they likely did upvote each others content actively to game the system but they were regular contributors to reddit otherwise. It wasn't until a huge outcry from /r/LeagueofLegends, /r/Starcraft, /r/Games and several other subreddits, and internal discussions between OnGamers and the admins, that the bans were reversed.