cavelamb himself wrote:


From Wiki:
A shipmate is literally a mate on one's own ship, ie. a member of the
same crew. A sailor of the oceans and seas who demonstrates selfless
dedication and loyalty, putting the crew, the ship and the mission above
his/her self interests.


So...

Who on this list would you prefer to ship with?

What Jere said. He was the first one I thought of when you posed this
question. But in general anyone outside my immediate family who has a
positive attitude is probably going to be a good shipmate. (I exclude
my immediate family because a) none of them participate in this
newsgroup b) even when they don't have a positive attitude, I would
still sail with them because I love them.

And who would you avoid at all costs?

The other side of the coin - people who can do nothing but find fault
and sneer (whether they do it politely using a large non-blasphemous
and non-scatological vocabulary or not) are not good prospects as a
shipmate.