Johnny Brandmeier was fired by WLUP-FM in Chicago in November 2009. Why am I mentioning this now? A tester confirmed that he was still on the stream in December 2009, and again in January 2010. I just found this out now. WLUP is a major station in a major market.
How can I fix these incorrect test results without becoming a complete ogre?
If sombody is repeatedly getting it wrong, dump him because he is doing more harm then good.
Delete the account of the offending tester. Those of us that try to make sure we are confirming the right thing won’t mind. :)
OR……… maybe its Brandmeier himself that is trying to hang on. :)
It’s a process problem, not a person problem. Unless you know the voice (I worked in Chicago for several years and recognized immediately it wasn’t him), it takes a long time to confirm a “local” person – and outside of major markets, nobody cares about local hosts (here).
The two top thoughts I have are to push out the minimum time before It Worked will accept a report for non-syndicated hosts to suppress the assembly line testing trap you can get into… Or just exclude the local hosts from the testing process and do those myself – either way probably means fewer local hosts in the database, but I’m not sure that’s all bad…
Unless it’s a recurring problem with a specific tester, I would consider it an isolated issue…simply a mistake. But if the tester is repeatedly making errors, a warning should come before deleting the account.
I just made some significant changes – hopefully I didn’t break anything.
Now, when testing programs, it is looking at the average testing time for that program – if your test time is significantly shorter than the average of other people who tested that program in the past, it will reject the test.. Non-syndicated programs will have a much longer minimum test time. The tradeoff, is that you’ll get significantly more points for testing those local shows.