I'm aware of those rules, and you are right, but I do want to point out a few things! As the original post in the thread says the 10%/90% global rule still applies - if more than 10% of your posts are self-promotion (ie: links to your content) you are risk of a shadowban; this is true and I encourage people to keep that in mind as it out of my control of as the moderator of this subreddit.
Second; no one here has directly requested the votes of other members for their comics; merely by directing submissions and traffic to the subreddit, it's well within boundries; keeping in mind that sort of behavior is rarely directly enforced by the admin staff as is (there are very small compared to user base) and the moderation staff of this subreddit is just me.
And third... I made the subreddit for people to submit their comics to it! While it has (enforced) anti-spaming rules to prevent, shall we say, insistent promotion, it's for the purpose of people sharing long form story comics, so no one is going to complain about rule abiding submissions! Reddit is not exactly a monolithic community, and the goal here is build a subsection of that community that is looking for and looking to enjoy submissions of long form story webcomics.
I did give this a fair amount of thought to make sure we are building a community tool valuable to both readers and creators, and hope that people can both find new readers and new comics to read through it across all comic communities.
PS To General Topic: I am still fighting with the Spam Filter on Tapastic submissions. Feel free to submit direct Taptastic links and I WILL fish them out of spam, so don't panic. Feel free to ping me with a message if you like, but I will find and approve it through.