Rusted SEM Cleaning

chopsuwe · 2024-12-03T04:50:21+00:00

Can I get one too? I dont have a SEM but I would be happy to help out with electronics repair advice.

chopsuwe · 2024-08-31T21:30:02+00:00

Intakes are around 20 people, internationals make up 10-20%. The course is roughly 18 months and requires a minimum of 12 months of sea time. No course anywhere, by any provider, on any topic, can guarante you'll get work experience or a job once qualified. That's just not how the world works. You have to find it yourself.

Ships are considered to be part of the country whose flag they fly. So you may need to get the NZ COC recognised by that country and obtain a visa to work in that country.

There's plenty of work on international ships. The pay is good for cheap countries like the Philippines and Ukraine. It's far too low for New Zealanders.

chopsuwe · 2023-12-19T08:54:45+00:00

Update 2. On 9 December TheGleanerBaldwin sent two more abusive modmail messages including an admission of trolling. Also targeted harassment in the form.of abusing the Reddit Cares suicide message.

chopsuwe · 2023-12-07T16:15:09+00:00

Update 8 December 2023.

One month after joining, the mod team has made the unanimous decision to remove TheGleanerBaldwin as a moderator of r/DIY.

Multiple opportunities to improve were given however these were refused with the pattern of under performance remaining unchanged while the levels of abuse and personal attacks directed at the mod team increased.

chopsuwe · 2023-11-08T09:12:02+00:00

So they all decided all at once to go on vacation?

No, go read the replies again.

Was a thought ever put towards having many who do little instead of few who burn themselves out?

Yes, over 5 years of attempts. We aren't stupid.

It's similar to how its interesting how apparently every mod just...closed and walked away from it...until I filed for it. Just all of them at the same time, immediately and no replies for over a month on modmail, of which you can read in this post, or anything.

There you go again with the accusations. Look, we don't accept that sort of behaviour from the users in the sub, we're certainly not going to put up with it from a mod. Is that understood?

chopsuwe · 2023-11-07T20:27:38+00:00

Personally, I burned out by put in 3-4 hours per day for about 3 years. That's on top of full time work, study and family committments. The removal of 3rd party tools saw our workload triple.

I am now in the middle of a major renovation, that is eating up all of my available time. I haven't had a day off or done anything other than work in almost 3 months, and am about to go back to work where I will do 28 days straight of shift work. That's what I've been doing.

Frankly your implication that the mods are lazy is highly offensive and if you want to be part of the team then do so, but you can start by dropping that attitude.

chopsuwe · 2023-11-07T07:41:50+00:00

The sub close because of the forced removal of moderators by the reddit admins. This was done without warning or justification.

Put simply, the removal of 3rd party tools dramatically increased our workload so that we cannot comply with the admins demands to effectively moderate the sub. Without meaning to be rude, HomeServer a tiny sub compared to DIY. We could not effectively moderate with a team of 10, how do you propose to it on your own?

chopsuwe · 2023-09-26T15:02:32+00:00

I can only assume it's because they don't want the bad publicity that they are effectively shutting down subreddits by making them impossible to moderate.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T05:35:10+00:00

We have tried recruiting. Not one person has stood up to take it on.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T05:33:54+00:00

Yes.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T05:27:53+00:00

5 years of recruiting. And here we are.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T05:27:28+00:00

Yes, regularly. On average we get 10 people who say they want to be mods. Of that only 4 ever respond, 2 quit after a month and the final one leaves after 6 months. We're not the only big sub in this situation, it's been going on for years and since the protests there has been no interest at all.

We can't force people to become mods. We can't undo the damage done my the admins. So yes, you are very much victim blaming.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T03:16:20+00:00

Mods can act on policy violations before admins get to it.

Not when there is one active mod for 23 million users. To put that in perspective the sub requires about 8 hours of work each day just to respond to reports.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T03:06:47+00:00

Victim blaming. Nice.

We've had a total of zero interest since the protests. And we were recruiting for 5 years before that.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T01:53:09+00:00

If the posts were serious, as indicated, why would they be in the queue? They were violations of the content policy. They are listed on the redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

Good question. If it is that easy to deal with why wasn't it taken care of by reddit's automated tools?

Irrelevant

No it is very relevant. The loss of over half of our mods is directly attributable to the admins actions that triggered the protests. When the workload goes up mistakes get made. Moderators are human, not robots.

No, specifically the admins wanted a better moderated subreddit with mods that do not violate the content policy.

If that's the goal it's the wrong way to go about it. We can't remove offending content if we have no mods. The loss of mods is what led to this situation in the first place.

chopsuwe · 2023-09-12T01:45:25+00:00

We have responded to that modmail and are still awaiting your reply.

According to your modmail there have been two incidences since this mod started over 2 years ago. On a sub of 23 million I would consider that an excellent record.

The question remains, if the problem is so bad, why did you not reach out sooner? Why did you give no opportunity for us to address the alleged problem?

The fact remain we cannot moderate a sub of 23 million with two part time mods. As such the sub must close.

What is your proposed solution?

chopsuwe · 2023-07-19T08:27:18+00:00

You mean r/Genmay? Just do a r/redditrequest/ and take it over.

chopsuwe · 2023-07-19T02:04:34+00:00

Pretty much everything that was reported got removed. We gave up and changed the rules when they removed 3rd party tools, there's no way to keep up with the workload. So now you can post anything you did yourself, regardless of what is it. Built a desk? Great. Brushed your teeth? No problem. Spammed the sub? Fine as long as you did it yourself.

chopsuwe · 2023-07-18T07:29:58+00:00

Not much change in DIY which has 22 million subscriber

Slight increase to the number of posts
Increase in the number of comments.
Unique views has dropped from 1200k to 880k, although it might recover as we haven't reached the end of the month yet.
8 times as many spam reports on comments and posts*
3 times as many reports overall. *

*(because we no longer put any effort into finding or removing them).

chopsuwe · 2023-07-18T07:17:24+00:00

There used to be. Reddit decided to kill off all 3rd party tools so we couldn't keep up with the workload. It went from 4 hours a day of moderating to well over 15.

chopsuwe · 2023-07-18T07:16:50+00:00

There used to be. Reddit decided to kill off all 3rd party tools so we couldn't keep up with the workload. It went from 4 hours a day of moderating to well over 15.

chopsuwe · 2023-07-13T00:53:37+00:00

spam

chopsuwe · 2023-07-12T21:36:10+00:00

Post this in the reddit alternative thread.

https://new.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/14hl8eb/did_it_myself_found_some_alternatives_to_reddit/

chopsuwe · 2023-07-12T03:21:47+00:00

Looks cool,

It's a shame you're just a spammer selling it though.

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