It’s been a month since I pointed out that stations were slipping back into being > 180 days since being given the cursory review I asked people to help with. With about 14,000 stations now with websites or at least Facebook pages, visiting each one twice a year means needing to sustain an average of 76 per day.<\/p>\n
The objective is to make this process self-sustaining, in the event that I get dragged off to Alex Jones’ DHS extermination camps. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
For about the past six months, I have been focused on research seeking the 1500 or so radio stations where I have been unable to ever find a website – to determine the stations format, or that the station even exists. Each day, I tried to do some maintenance of North Carolina stations, but that’s it.<\/p>\n
So how is the volunteer thing going? Let’s look at the counts by day, not counting what I’ve been doing.<\/p>\n
\r\n+----------+--------------------+\r\n| count(*) | date(verifiedtime) |\r\n+----------+--------------------+\r\n| 16 | 2015-01-01 |\r\n| 8 | 2015-01-02 |\r\n| 28 | 2015-01-03 |\r\n| 21 | 2015-01-05 |\r\n| 57 | 2015-01-06 |\r\n| 9 | 2015-01-07 |\r\n| 20 | 2015-01-08 |\r\n| 19 | 2015-01-09 |\r\n| 67 | 2015-01-11 |\r\n| 62 | 2015-01-12 |\r\n| 8 | 2015-01-13 |\r\n| 84 | 2015-02-08 |\r\n| 30 | 2015-02-09 |\r\n| 24 | 2015-02-10 |\r\n| 9 | 2015-02-11 |\r\n| 27 | 2015-02-12 |\r\n| 8 | 2015-02-13 |\r\n| 15 | 2015-02-15 |\r\n| 29 | 2015-02-16 |\r\n| 17 | 2015-02-17 |\r\n| 30 | 2015-02-18 |\r\n| 102 | 2015-02-19 |\r\n| 47 | 2015-02-20 |\r\n| 14 | 2015-02-21 |\r\n| 18 | 2015-02-23 |\r\n| 17 | 2015-02-24 |\r\n| 16 | 2015-02-25 |\r\n| 69 | 2015-02-26 |\r\n| 21 | 2015-02-27 |\r\n| 21 | 2015-03-02 |\r\n| 20 | 2015-03-03 |\r\n| 31 | 2015-03-04 |\r\n| 19 | 2015-03-05 |\r\n+----------+--------------------+\r\n<\/pre>\nNote there are days missing where no stations were reviewed. I’m not sure why there is a three week gap in the middle. The data only shows the most recent time stations were verified \u2013 it may be that the stations reviewed during that time period Have been reviewed again more recently.<\/p>\n
I’m not badgering people to resume testing. One of the people suggested maybe I wasn’t clear enough that I was asking for help. 15 minutes a month is not going to just tread water. Most “volunteers” who signed up never do a single test. If I revert to blocking access to the website unless people help, Google imposes a severe penalty on the website – and frankly people will just go away.<\/p>\n
So I am open for some “thinking out-of-the-box” solutions. Paying employees money to do the work is out of the question. In a couple more days, I will finish up the remaining “never found” radio stations. A large portion of the database is already back to being “Untrusted”. The warnings have not enticed a single new person to volunteer and actually help.<\/p>\n
Spring is coming. Maybe it is time to smell the flowers. The clock on the wall reminds me that you don’t get time back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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