As one of the 2p writers who was banned when our domain was banned, my 2cents:

This issue is a tough one. In our particular case, as others have alluded to, Mali and myself who were the only two 2p writers linking our work in /r/dota2 were doing so a lot less than many other writers were in other subreddits. 2p.com has it especially bad because, like TL, the site is forum-based. non-staff writers can post 'articles' and then promote them on reddit and there's not much anyone can do about it. So in our case, there definitely were users who were spamming completely unwanted and unliked content all over reddit.

That said, the rules say that even what Mali and I were doing is problematic. As I've read in several of these threads, many people find this weird because our content was generally well received. The same is the case for ongamers. Why should it matter who posts the content if it's good for the community and people like it?

Well, supposedly, the issue is that people posting their own content encourages 'voting rings' and vote manipulation. It's more likely if you are posting your own work that you'll ask friends to upvote - and reddit don't want this happening. They want upvotes to be purely based on quality (and downvotes are meant to just indicate that a post is not constructive, does not contribute to the sub, or is irrelevant I think). IMO, downvotes in particular haven't been used in this way for aaaages. The truth is that there is a dirty background to some of this industry. Writers for some sites get their friends and colleagues to upvote their work while writers for competing sites will get their friends and colleagues to downvote the same posts. I hate how 'political' some of the up and downvoting I see on this sub is. For example, the other day, about an hour before the SLTV Europe tiebreakers started, I published an article at 2p.com previewing the tiebreakers and offering some predictions. Someone actually linked it to reddit soon after but I doubt any of you saw it because it got downvoted really hard almost immediately. I can't for the life of me imagine that kind of post being genuinely worthy of downvotes. And no other sites had written similar content previewing the event. Yet, the downvotes were swift and many.

For the record, I personally pretty much never downvote any posts in this sub. I don't care who wrote the article, if it's good/interesting i'll upvote it. If not, I ignore it. The whole notion of downvoting seems heavily distorted - not sure if that's just in this sub (which is by far the one i'm most active in).

Anyway, It's pretty late where I am, and I've started to go on a bit of a tangent. You might be cynical and think that Reddit wants people to pay to get exposure rather than get it for free. Or maybe you accept the given justifications about self-promotion encouraging dodgy voting practices. Maybe it's a bit of both. Personally, I think the site I work for should be paying for advertising on reddit anyway. All of the Dota content sites should do so. It's really not expensive. Meanwhile, I'm trying pretty hard on my new account to abide by the reddit rules. Although it does feel quite contrived, I've started looking for content worth sharing on reddit, to avoid only sharing my own content, and have reduced the frequency with which I will share my own content.

IMO, the biggest problem is that this community uses this site as a hub for finding ALL content and isn't wanting to check each site all the time for updates. That's not necessarily a bad thing per se, but it means that good material is going to struggle to get here organically. It would be cool if, instead of randomly downvoting each other, content creators could at least do one another a favour and share each other's content. Writers from one site sharing content from another site is totally legit afaik.