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Newt
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 Posted - 01/03/2003 : 10:59:50
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Is it just me or is the response picking up. I noticed in the past few weeks we had more posts being made from different people. Its a positive sign that people are becomming more interested in this forum.
I don't know about the rest of you but the more the merrier. Maybe it is the cheerful attitude going around, lots of people are working now. That does keep the spirit up. |
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 11:22:47
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Well Newt, as I sit here and watch the snow fall and pile up, while chewing on my morning Corona; I do note that the response rate in CADO is picking up.
Last time I cared to calculate it, it was 5. something percent. A minute ago it was 151/2219 or .068% which does reflect increase posting by others and / or new people to the site.
I certainly agree, the more the merrier, because I think there are a lot of people out there (Reddog perhaps as an exception) that can contribute worthwhile information or commentary to this site.
Another favorable trend I have noticed, is more people responding to Roy's rally to 'communitize' our little world to a greater degree. Most times when I open the forum, I first look to see who the 'active members' are, then click on each to look at their 'user profile' to 'get to know them' better. There has been a decent increase in people adding more and - I want to believe - believable information about themselves. I think that is a 'good thing'.
I particularly encourage the newer people to do so, and as I have said before you are their 'Poster Boy'. Again, with fewer exceptions than the preceeding six months, there does seem to be a more appeasing or conciliatory trend to the posts; but I don't think it necessarily directly relates itself to 'lots of people working now'. Outside the regular main minority core of CADO cat workers, I would suggest that well over 50% of whoever the 2219 members are, have not been gainfully engaged in claims work in the past six months.
However, our 'community' is probably not unlike many other societies, and contains a broad mix from domestic homemakers to woodworkers, from wannabe insurance workers to the pure cat adjuster who is a professional. I don't necessarily agree with that mix given the intent and purpose of this web site; but I am just an invitee to the site like everyone else. |
Edited by - CCarr on 01/03/2003 11:48:31 |
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Admin
547 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 14:00:07
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| It can be hard to understand community forums. For example I own and operate a community forum that is not insurance related. That forum has 956 members however, out of the 956 members 516 have made over 28,971 post! Over 100 new post are made each day, 1/1 - 144, 1/2 - 148. Here at CADO our avg so far this year is 22 per day but that is better than it has been for awhile. |
Roy Cupps -
CatAdjuster.org :: Contact\Feedback :: Adjuster Roster :: Current Forum |
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 14:26:59
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Well you've got my curiousity.
Roy, in that other forum you own and operate, that is 'not insurace related' with 956 members; do you know the 'make up' of those members? How many, other than yourself, would be insurance type people - underwriters, loss control, agents, staff claims people, independent adjusters, claims vendors of all types, cat adjusters, or wannabes of any of those?
Is it a restricted forum, or can we have a peak? |
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Admin
547 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 14:51:58
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| It is a forum that centers around a product used in paintball. A marker (paintball gun) called the Spyder. The site is located at www.spyderea.net the makeup of the community is international and mostly consist of a younger group. I would say about 1/3 of the membership is below the age of 22. It is a site I started a few years ago for my son who since then lost interest in paintball. While I'm the owner and webmaster I do not post there very much. |
Roy Cupps -
CatAdjuster.org :: Contact\Feedback :: Adjuster Roster :: Current Forum |
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 15:51:38
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Wow, like that is so so far from my three wildest guesses of what it might have been.
You certainly did have my curiousity, but in hindsight I shouldn't have pried into it.
Thanks Roy, I appreciate you answering; I'll not likely visit that other site too often.
But I cann't resist to blow a little unrelated steam, having seen the word 'gun', as in paintball gun.
I have had a hunting licence for about 34 years now, after taking quite a course for that and being tutored to no end by my father years ago, like any Dad would do. Then three years ago, this stupid 'do good' government up here imposed new laws that made anyone who touched a gun or had possession of a gun (I mean rifles & shotguns) to apply for and get a Firearms Possession Certificate. Then shortly after that they brought out another law - if you touched, possessed or owned a rifle or shotgun, you must apply for Firearms Registration. The deadline was the 1st, three days ago; it's just a lot of BS and too much control and I'm now a non-conforming SOB.
Sorry, I just had to get that out, as I stare at the registration forms on my desk. |
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Newt
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 16:29:37
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When you loose intrest in the people you work with, the job and what goes on in the industry, work becomes a drag. Not that I am working and by no means a poster boy, I contribute very little, but I do thrive on study and what others have to say. Most of all I like to keep people I communicate with talking, thats how we learn. Believe me I learn a little every day, some days more than others. No one should sell this contribution by Roy short, this site is more important than all the schools out there or at least equal.
Like you Clayton, I read everyones bio, where they are located, likes and dislikes. Then perhaps when we meet, I will know them and remember them for ever. Most of the hams I talk to on the radio, At one time or another I have met in person. Strange but they never look like I have them pictured in my mind. Yet after the meeting I never forget them and the friendship grows. I have taken my station down and moved it to Texas except for the tower. I have two good stations 2kw each and some VHF stuff but I can only concentrate on one thing at a time so I leave it down till I need it.
When I get in the field I'll have phone patch capability any where in the world by satelite or ssb.
I got to get another roach coach, I just sold my travel trailer after refurbishing it. So I got to get another one and get it rigged up like I want. I had a Holliday and it was really heavy, like dragging a train.
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KileAnderson
USA
875 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 17:39:42
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| Clayton, just keep in mind that before they can confiscate all the weapons in private possesion, they have to know where they all are. That's is all gun registration is, the first step to gun confiscation. It worked for the Nazi's then it worked in Brittain and Australia. The only reason the government collects information is to take away yet another one of your freedoms. |
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Gale
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 20:04:54
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Clayton maybe this article will help you sleep better tonight.
http://www.canoe.ca/WinnipegNews/ws.ws-01-03-0011.html
No gun crackdown
Reinforcement but nothing special: RCMP
By FRANK LANDRY, LEGISLATURE REPORTER
Mounties will not seek out and drop the hammer on gun registry scofflaws, say RCMP.
"We're mandated to enforce this part of the legislation as we are all Canadian statutes," Manitoba RCMP spokesman Sgt. Steve Saunders said yesterday.
"Having said that, we will not be developing or implementing any special enforcement measures pertaining to the firearms registration."
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Gale
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 20:13:14
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Clayton today must be your lucky day. :)
article
Jan. 3, 2003. 01:00 AM
Halt gun registry: Ontario
Wants audit of cost overruns finished first Opponents step up harassment at registry offices
TIM HARPER
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
OTTAWA—The Ontario government is calling on Ottawa to shut down its contentious gun registry until an internal audit can get to the bottom of massive cost overruns.
Public Safety Minister Bob Runciman will make a formal call today at an Ottawa press conference, demanding Justice Minister Martin Cauchon close the registry until the "real costs to taxpayers" are determined and a cost-benefit analysis has been completed.
"We want to find out exactly where the money has been spent because that is an awful lot of money," said Meaghan McFedries, a spokesperson for Runciman.
Ontario has long opposed the gun control legislation,
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CCarr
Canada
1200 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 20:53:50
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Hey Gale, thanks a lot, that issue was / is truly burning up my backside, but on top of that non-conforming can have a price if the 'system' is looking for a whipping boy.
I just love going with some guys for a little hunt now and then, I got a piece of private paradise 'way back in', where I don't have to worry about 'indoor face weekend shooters', trying to ricochet a shot off of every sound they hear in the bush. |
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jlombardo
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2003 : 06:40:15
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| "when you give up a liitle bit of FREEDOM inorder to gaina little bit of security,in a very short time you will have neither." |
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Newt
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2003 : 18:20:28
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| I have a fish pond with lots of good grass for the deer that live down below the dam. I use to hunt and I do like my guns, however I have taken to feeding the deer and quail here and I don't have to dress them I feed the birds about two gallons of grain a day, of course I got every kind of bird feeding here you can imagine, they eat more like pigs. |
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