Suddenly UI-Tom
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Evidence record · M-002

r/Ubiquiti removes UI-Tom as moderator

An r/Ubiquiti moderator announced Tom's removal after community objections, while crediting his earlier work and saying the team knew about his Ubiquiti employment. Suddenly_Engineer agreed with the decision, wrote that he should have stepped down years earlier, and acknowledged that retaining privileges on a personal account undermined community trust.

M-002Documented

An r/Ubiquiti moderator announced Tom's removal after community objections, while crediting his earlier work and saying the team knew about his Ubiquiti employment. Suddenly_Engineer agreed with the decision, wrote that he should have stepped down years earlier, and acknowledged that retaining privileges on a personal account undermined community trust.

M-002r/Ubiquiti removes UI-Tom as moderator
Reddit post announcing UI-Tom's removal as moderator and Suddenly_Engineer acknowledging the decision and conflict
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ClassificationDocumented
Source typePublic Reddit announcement and response
Captured2026-08-28
SHA-256dd0a6945e642c836f277e1d9c4cc0708bcac109010253cc35b86d18eeeef066d
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What this shows

  • The announcement is authored by u/iKjQ2a4v. Suddenly_Engineer addresses his reply to Jon, and the publisher identifies u/iKjQ2a4v as Jon's Reddit account.
  • An r/Ubiquiti moderator announced that UI-Tom would be removed as a moderator.
  • The announcement says Tom had been a moderator before joining Ubiquiti and disclosed the employment to the moderator team after he was hired.
  • The announcement says the team kept him because it valued his contributions and believed his limited moderation activity was overseen.
  • Suddenly_Engineer publicly agreed with the removal and said he should have stepped down years earlier.
  • Suddenly_Engineer said maintaining a personal account with moderation privileges undermined community trust.

What this does not show

  • The exact date on which all Reddit permissions were technically revoked.
  • The internal deliberations that led to the announcement.
  • Who performed any earlier moderation action.
Exact quoted excerpt
You and the other moderators made the right call. I didn't think about my impact on the community while maintaining the moderator role, and that's on me. I should have stepped down years ago, and maintaining a personal account with moderation privileges has undermined community trust.

Verified speaker: Suddenly_Engineer · Attribution verified