For anyone who cares, this account gets repeated often, but is completely false. I was founder and top mod of r/StarTrek for a decade and we absolutely had no “hidden rules” under my tenure nor did they as far as I know after I quit (for unrelated reasons in protest of Reddit policies).

What was often complained about is some of our intentionally broader rules like “criticism must be constructive” and “be civil” that were crafted in an effort to discourage low-effort whining (often about Discovery in particular because any mildly-positive post was getting swarmed to death by “just my opinion” bros) and A Certain Type of Person really didn’t like feeling restricted by that, but we were always fully transparent about the reasoning behind our decisions and fully understood that our vision for what we wanted in a community meant we wouldn’t appeal to everyone.