Former MacRumors blogger discusses MacRumors work culture

[RockRock8]

The Infinite Loop of Canceling Products That Don't Exist

As a former MacRumors reporter, I explain how Apple product rumors become “canceled” headlines, and how the media helps invent products that never existed

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Read it for yourself. He explicitly calls out Gurman on Twitter for his nonsense regarding 26.4 rumors

As for the rest, he doesn't go so far as to completely condemn entirely all Apple blogging but probably because he still continues to blog. Otherwise this sounds like a pretty insightful post about MacRumors and what negative effects it has

 

[Cmaier]

He refers to a “macrumors newsroom?”

@Eric, where is our newsroom?

 

[Yoused]

where is our newsroom?

It is all of the internets. We bring it all here, like an aggregator. Except, of course, into that one section that got sent to the cornfield.

 

[Cmaier]

It is all of the internets. We bring it all here, like an aggregator. Except, of course, into that one section that got sent to the cornfield.

I demand a desk, with one of those green lamps and a big phone with lots of flashing buttons. And a typewriter. IBM selectric.

 

[Yoused]

I demand a desk, with one of those green lamps and a big phone with lots of flashing buttons. And a typewriter. IBM selectric.

And a red eyeshade? Pencil sharpener? Carbon paper in the drawer? Pewter filigreed cigar box? And of course you have to have a mahogany-frame Newton's Cradle next to the Lava Lamp.

 

[japanime]

This guy can write circles around his former colleagues at that outfit. No wonder he got sick of the hackery and left.

 

[Cmaier]

I’m thinking of starting a new site, called MacRumorsRumors, which will feature rumors about MacRumors. The first rumor is that MacRumors is planning on switching to AI moderators, and they plan to introduce this by the end of February.

Then, in early March, I will report on how they are late with this new feature and that it will be delayed until April. In April I will report on how the feature didn’t function properly during internal testing, and has been abandoned.

 

[Eric]

I’m thinking of starting a new site, called MacRumorsRumors, which will feature rumors about MacRumors. The first rumor is that MacRumors is planning on switching to AI moderators, and they plan to introduce this by the end of February.

Speaking of which, ex moderator wonders why the quality of moderation has dropped.

Moderator coverage

@annk / @Doctor Q, I'm noticing my reports taking longer and longer to resolve and I'm seeing less and less moderators online. Going through the membership page, there seems to be more inactive moderators then active. Are there any plans to onboarding new moderators? Secondly, there used to...

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[Cmaier]

Speaking of which, ex moderator wonders why the quality of moderation has dropped.

Moderator coverage

@annk / @Doctor Q, I'm noticing my reports taking longer and longer to resolve and I'm seeing less and less moderators online. Going through the membership page, there seems to be more inactive moderators then active. Are there any plans to onboarding new moderators? Secondly, there used to...

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