I'll start at the beginning. We ban medium.com posts because most of it is blog spam trash. We have something in AutoModerator called a "Disallowed Domains" rule that notifies users when their submission from that list of domains is removed, with a message telling users to ask us if they think the post should be approved anyways. Users asked us to allow the post. I didn't like the post because it didn't even name Hardwick directly, even if context clues made it obvious (I had no idea who Chloe was before this though). It also contained no serious allegations, e.g. sexual assault or rape, it just seemed like someone airing their dirty laundry. So we didn't allow it upon review.

The rule had a loophole though that's since been patched, which is that you could post the domain in the text portion of the post. A user did this in the middle of the night and none of us caught it by the time it was already in r/all. So it was left up. I personally am not big on the "leave it up if it happened to evade our clutches" philosophy because to me it's not a consistent, fair way to moderate, but meh. So the next day we let Hardwick's statement through as a matter of fairness, but we're not a news network. We can't force equal visibility on an issue since we don't control the votes. So that thread got significantly less traction, and since then, we've been trying to only allow news that directly affects television, e.g. Talking with Chris Hardwick being pulled from AMC. We've pulled more threads than just the one you saw today, but in the wee hours of the morning, it's possible for threads to rocket up quickly before any mod notices it, which is why you noticed today's thread but perhaps not any others we've removed before. We're trying to keep the sub from devolving into relationship drama, you can see the stories we've allowed since then in this search result.

If I could do it again and was awake for it I would've kept the story nuked from the start with only then allowing news concerning effects on the television industry. Another mod might've acted differently though, this comment is a mix of my personal opinion and how the mod team acts. We've been trying to refine our response to be consistent in the wake of #metoo where people's dirty laundry is equated in the same breath with legitimate criminal accusations and all the grey zone that exists in that spectrum.