Hey r/Apple!
aaronp613 here. I’ve been a moderator here for close to 5 years, but some of you might recognize my name from the Apple Event threads posted here over the past few years.
As of yesterday, I have joined MacRumors as a contributing researcher which leaves me in a bit of a pickle as to what I should do as far as my moderator status on this subreddit.
I’ll admit, ever since the API changes and strike, I have not really moderated this subreddit (or really any subreddit) that much, but as mentioned above, I still handle the Apple Event megathreads each time as I love experiencing the Apple Events with all of you.
So now the question is, what do I do?
Obviously, I should not be handling any day to day moderation going forward as I beleive that every news blog that follows our guidelines should have an equal and fair chance of being posted on our forum without the appearance of any potential bias from the moderation team.
When I brought this up to some of the other r/apple moderators, 2 possible solutions we thought of were these:
Option 1: Only continue posting Apple event threads and moderate the comments on those threads (leaving the news posting to another moderator).
Option 2: Option 1 but I also continue to post news links during the event for each topic. Accusations of bias can be avoided as we always post whichever news blog posts first, so the timestamps would speak for themselves.
So I want to hear your thoughts on the matter, because at the end of the day we are a community.
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Just do the megathreads, it’s not that big if a deal.
Congrats. You’ve graduated. Thanks for being open and honest. Go get paid.
Who cares
Option 3: No MacRumor, 9to5apple, and other spam blogs. No conflict of interests and the forum will have higher SNR.
I think if you disclose it when needed (ie if you were to post a MacRumors article) and just don’t act like a heel it’s a complete non-issue.
edit: and congrats on the new job!
Terrible place you’re headed to. Have 2nd thoughts.
Macrumors has “researchers”? lol
You’re one of the best contributors to this community so I hope you stay involved regardless of your moderation position.
lol. As if this sub needed more Macrumours or 9to5 posts
Nobody cares. We don’t know you or care. Any mod who supported the protest despite the community not supporting it should lose their sub though.
First congratulations on your new job! Will you still be around and post to the apple community if you step down from moderating?
For sure
Not sure why stepping down isn’t an option because it’s the only good one here imo.
Following up with people who may not see the update:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/17xpa3n/addressing_a_conflict_of_interest_on_rapple/k9q045r/
Just saw the update, appreciated. Huge congrats and hope you enjoy your time at 925 (some of my friends work there too ☺️)
Option 2 seems fine and congrats on the job!!!
Do whatever you want. The fact that you are being transparent and asking guidance suggests you would do the right thing as a moderator. If we don’t like it (heck, even if we do), we’ll just complain about the moderators.
Option 3: Give me the security camera tapes like we discussed and I’ll consider letting you out of the cage.