Reddit’s Fact Sheet says that ”We respect our communities’ ability to protest as long as mods follow our Moderator Code of Conduct” and also “We respect the communities right to protest.” Originally, we took that at face value. You can protest, as long as you don’t break the rules. We read your rules, and the rules included nothing about protests of this sort or any other.

However, you are now telling us that by definition, a protest of this form breaks the rules. Therefore, by definition, Reddit does not support this form of protest.