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Actual employees of reddit can investigate and remove mods who act outside of guidelines, but they don't.

The traditional solution for this on mailing lists and Usenet was to tell the misinformation spreader in no uncertain terms that he is an idiot.

There was a reason for the tone back then and it worked.

Flames however are also censored nowadays, since it is essential for the people in power to maintain polite meaningless conversation that will never lead to any actions.

Misinformation is different from censorship.

I would personally rather have to sort through misinfo myself, rather than run the risk of having truthful information hidden from me.

Couldn't these two situations be viewed as the same thing? You can hide information just as well by surrounding it with misinformation.