You're right, but I always like to try. Like I said, in the future I'll poll across all sites and just do that when things like this happen off schedule. If I always chose, I'd always choose the same time and the same people would always loose out unless their schedules changed for one reason or another. For this reason above all, I care about what works for you all. I personally don't think its fair to always just be 1 way all the time. ~ Mark L.
Hey Mark, You are the requestor. Put them out when YOU want in whatever size batch YOU want. You can't make everyone happy. You are a great requestor and people will do your batch whenever it appears. Even though I rarely can you your batches now due to your timing, that is my problem, not yours. I don't begrudge your timing. Keep happy and keep putting the batches out there. One day again, my timeing and yours might mesh!.. Thanks for being a great requestor.
How's everyone else with doctor mismatches today? I got 5-6 during the bio step and just now hit my 6th in the contact step, including one I already marked last step.
I've gotten quite a few, more in the previous step (2) than the current step (3), but definitely more than I had the week before last.
I had a few in the second step and I Google searched, found the correct website for that dentist in a matter of a minute, then posted it into the notes after marking it as a mismatch. I've had half a dozen doctor mismatches in this 3rd step, which is really unusual. I'm marking those down, too. It's clear that there's at least one person who is still not clicking through the websites and making sure that the dentist(s) are there on the first step and that somebody (or some people) are getting lazy on the second step now, too.
The screw ups in step one (and later steps) still drive me nuts, but now I also find myself worrying about the times in later steps where somebody might incorrectly mark "doctor mismatch" when the doctor is a bit hard to find (usually the big dental chains). Usually though, the mismatches are really obvious, when there are only two or three doctors at a practice and none of them match up.
I hear ya. I did mark a couple of hospitals in the first step today where the dentist does work there and practice dentistry but you would have to search for them (or even run a quick google search to go directly to the bio page). I just had 2 more doctor mismatches in a row though. One was a Stephen Whatever whose listed website on the HIT was for a guy with the same name (minus the middle initial) in the Midwest, while the doctor Mark wanted, named Steven D. Whatever, was listed in Google as being faculty at Tufts University. Those types of mistakes are rare, but show a lack of attention to detail. Immediately after that I had a link to a general website listing with the dentist's name on it. The link to the ACTUAL website for that dentist was right there on the page! That's just lazy.
I got a LOT at the tail end of this step, including a couple where there isn't ANY doctor named anywhere on the site. Marked 'em all and hoping for the best next step, but the frequency seemed unusually high today. On the other hand, I only got a couple with the invisible character, and if I remember right, those had the right doctor.
It's possible that the ones at the end of the step were returns. Maybe something like the previous person couldn't find the doctor and perhaps rather than mark it as a mismatch they just returned it rather than worry about marking it incorrectly and getting somebody else's qualification yanked. My last one in step three was a mismatch. I checked the location listed and got nothing, so I did a google "doctor name site:domain" search (which only checks results in that specific domain), which gave me nothing. Usually that's enough. But just to be sure, and because they only had eight locations instead of dozens, I checked each individual location in the chain's list of doctors. Really inefficient, but on the other hand I don't want to be responsible for somebody mistakenly losing their qualification.
I just had this one. If you Google her name, that link comes up, but you click the website and she isn't there. How this got through the second step I have no idea. If I check through Google i can find her here: https://www.itriagehealth.com/doctor/dr-kellie-d-smith-dmd-1062051 Googling that address leads me here: http://www.destdental.com/ That website is under construction, but I click the FB page and I find a picture of Kellie D Smith. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dest-Family-Dentistry-of-Albemarle/222167984500353?ref=stream It didn't take me that long to find her. No, she doesn't have a website that I could list in the first HIT, but at least that name didn't run through two more steps, causing me to waste my time and Mark to pay money for something that should not have gotten through step 1.
That might explain it, actually. Right from the start though, I seemed to be getting one every 10 minutes or so, and it about doubled in the last ~1/4 of the batch. A lot of these are matching the addresses, too, and I'm wondering if some people are seeing that and just letting them through.
I think several people are just looking at the street address and if it matches they submit and move on. They might not even be using the provided links and instead Googling the address. Or we get "B Fett, DMD", they see "Sarlacc Pit Dental - B Fett, DMD" as the title of the Google search result and assume that it's there without looking at the actual site. However, people in step two (or those of us doing step one correctly) visit that page and realize that Google's result was wrong, and nobody by that name works there.
Were that many of them so messed up that there is less than 1000 left and we're only on email/payment now? *sigh* This is why I hoped for megabatch so I could work later but I had to run kids around earlier.
Yea, except for the fact that we shouldn't expect to run out of work early because people are screwing them up so badly. Hopefully whoever was screwing up today's stuff is too busy to work on tomorrow's batch. *fingers crossed*
It might have been less bogus URLs coming through in the first place, since the bio step started under 1k.
Gallemore Dental is the wrong website. It looks like Tin T Truong, DDS has relocated to Texas. Her website comes up on the first page of a Google Search and is http://www.frontierdentalpc.com/ I'm just annoyed at this point. Step 4 shouldn't have mismatches like this.
Realistically, there would be even less in the subsequent batches if the mismatches from the first batch didn't slip through. Personally, I didn't have strong feelings either way about one big batch or spread over two days. Look on the bright side those of you who wanted just one big batch: The big advantage of splitting it across two days is knowing that you won't have to spend time hunting around for HITs tomorrow.