Reddit moderators need to be stopped

"Reddit moderators", your issue is with the /r/technology moderators. While there are some moderators who are over many subreddits, for the most part it's per-subreddit. These people don't work for or at "Reddit", they are just the people who originally created the subreddit or the people who were added later to help with moderation (by the people who originally created it).

Looking at the /r/technology rules I don't see anything about submitting your own content (some subs have rules against this).

All that said I agree a total ban is uncalled for but Reddit moderation is a thankless job that makes you sift through a ton of shit (depending on the size of the sub you moderate), I understand knee-jerk bans/deletions. Unless you've done moderation on a decently sized sub you don't understand how much work mods do to keep subs "healthy", sometimes this leads to false positives which is unfortunate but most subs accept that downside to keep out the spam.

the worst subreddits are the ones that have like 10-15 mods who just do nothing.

You don't fix a subreddit by adding more mods to the modlist.

You violated Reddit's self promotion rules by only posting your own content to that subreddit multiple times and are railing against the mods for doing their job?

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

And you're posting the complain on HN which also has a rule against it:

>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Yes, but it defeats the purpose of the intent to share with as many relevant people as possible; since you have to build up that membership count in the first place.

So it really sucks when the Reddit mods get out of control from time to time over what should just be simple situations able to be remedied with a simple 'sorry'.