Nope you are wrong there.
Reddit lives and dies by it's community. That is why the company behind this website should cater to their community, not their moderators. If the community doesn't like what moderators do on a high profile subreddit and leave, well it directly impacts advertising revenue aswell as reddit gold purchases.
It is still reddits community, and you better please your community. A social network like reddit dies without it's community. And fragmentation of a community like
/r/games
into smaller communities is a bad move in terms of advertisement revenue. A subreddit like
/r/games
for example is more likely to generate high page rankings on google, which in return brings in more users, which in return means higher impressions on an ad running on that subreddit, which in return means higher cost for running an ad on
/r/games.
There is a good reason for reddit to not let moderators run Amok with communities.
To think of your analogy, think of reddit being the manufacturer of the jeans jacket and
/r/games
as a point of sale for the jeans jackets. You definetely want a PoS which is nice looking, making your jeans jacket better looking than a place where you can get the same jeans jacket but they are all just thrown on the ground.
The goal of
/r/Games
is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers.
With that in mind, way too many good discussion and threads are removed because of overzealous moderators.