I found nukeworker in 2005. When searching for post-Navy employment, it was a great networking resource. 2 of 5 interviews came from contacts made through nukeworker. Becoming a GM seemed like a good way to show my gratitude in a "tangible display of support for the site". It looks like to me that the tone of the site has been set on its heels recently. I'm not sure why that is, but to me NW has nothing to explain or apologize for. If you don't like the site, don't visit it. If you do like the site, support it.
Thank you.
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity
See that? My buddy is calling me mediocre.
Marlin,
What is really happening is this:
"ONE GUY" is bitching about the site, claiming that we are a click/a club. That we are deleting posts that we don't like, just to suit our agenda. That he, and people like him, are being persecuted.
I say "ONE GUY" in quotes, because this guy is starting to get followers.
I've heard about this favoritism stuff for too long, and my buttons have been mashed on for too long. This isn't a single response to a single complaint. It’s been happening for years now.
Sometimes I’m a smart guy. Sometimes when people tell me that my fly is down I look down to check to see if it is. Often my fly is down, and I have to adjust it.
As you know, in the nuclear industry, we are programmed to give and receive peer coaching. We are not to get excited when someone complains, or makes an observation. These observations are meant to help us improve, if we are willing to listen.
Listening to every yahoo does not mean implement what every yahoo suggests. However, if you get enough independent yahoos all singing the same song… the melody is hard to resist, and you start to hum a few bars.
I want you to know that the recent changes were not the result of any recent actions, other than they may have been the catalyst.
These changes have been made over several months, even years. Any they do not need to be permanent changes. Just as the climate has changes on this site several times, it will change again, and require us to adapt again.
There are a few expected outcomes from this recent action.
1: The karma log is dead. Long live karma. – This will remove >50% of the complaints I get.
2: The people that claim they are being over moderated will only have me to blame, not some mysterious moderator. They might get me to fire a moderator if they complain long enough. But they are not going to get me to fire myself. So the next step in complaint reduction would be to remove THEM.
3: At some point, we will need to bring some of the moderators back. A forum needs moderators. When we bring moderators back, we need to do a better job a training them, and managing them. We have failed to give any of the moderators any training or guidance.
Things change, but they don’t have to stay changed.