A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/macbook: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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r/macbook is a subreddit dedicated to Apple and their most innovative product yet, and it welcomes people into what it calls The Macbook family. The people posting here are Macbook and Macos users who want to talk about their machines, share things they find interesting, and help each other out. The rules make it clear the room is for Apple and the Macbook ecosystem only, so everything you post should connect back to that. It reads like a friendly owner community, not a business hangout, so you are a guest in someone else's living room here.
The first gate is “Keep posts and comments relevant to Macbooks or MacOS.”, backed up by “No posts that aren’t directly related to Apple or to the Macbook eco-system.”. If you are a founder, the rule that decides your fate is “No spam or excessive self promotion”, which says all forms of self promotion can be removed at moderator discretion, including YouTube content, blogs and articles, and apps, and that anything breaking Reddit's self promotion rules will be removed. “Self-Posts Must Foster Reasonable Discussion.” means a text post has to start a real conversation, not just announce something. “No simple and/or easily searched technical support questions” says the moderators may approve a post only if it is a high-level issue that cannot be found on page 1 of Google. Then there are the quality and tone gates: “No memes or NSFW content.”, “No low quality posts.”, “No rude, offensive, or hateful comments.”, “No editorialized link titles (use the original article’s title when possible).”, “No selling or trading offers/stuff.”, and “No content related to piracy or illegal activities.”.
A good post here is something a Macbook owner would genuinely want to read and reply to. If you have built something for the Mac, share it as a text post that explains the problem you hit, what you did about it, and then ask the community an honest question about their own setup or workflow. That satisfies “Self-Posts Must Foster Reasonable Discussion.” and keeps you inside “No spam or excessive self promotion” because you are contributing, not broadcasting. If you share a link, use the original article's title exactly, because the rules forbid editorialized titles. If you ask a technical question, make sure it is a high-level issue that cannot be found on page 1 of Google, because simple questions get removed. Write like a user of the machine first and a founder second, and keep every word tied to Apple or the Macbook ecosystem.
Do not post anything off topic, because the rules remove off-topic posts and anything not directly related to Apple or the Macbook ecosystem. Do not post memes or NSFW content, and skip low quality posts entirely. Do not ask a technical support question that a quick Google search would answer, since the moderators only approve high-level issues. Do not editorialize link titles, use the original article's title instead. Do not sell or trade anything, and stay well away from piracy or illegal activities. Most importantly for a founder, do not over-promote. All forms of self promotion, including YouTube content, blogs, articles, and apps, can be removed at moderator discretion, and anything that breaks Reddit's self promotion rules will be removed. Be polite in comments too, because rude, offensive, or hateful comments are banned.
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Only carefully. The rule “No spam or excessive self promotion” says all forms of self promotion, including apps, can be removed at moderator discretion, so post it as a discussion-starting text post and make sure it follows Reddit's self promotion rules.
Blogs and articles are named in the self promotion rule as things moderators can remove, so only share one if it genuinely fosters reasonable discussion, use the original article's title, and do not make a habit of it.
Only if it is a high-level issue that cannot be found on page 1 of Google, because the rules say simple and easily searched support questions are not allowed.
No. The rule “No selling or trading offers/stuff.” bans it outright.
No. “No memes or NSFW content.” bans memes even when they are about Macbooks.
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