The problem is that it’s a lot of work, because as far as I can tell, to avoid overloading the Miscellaneous category, we have to go in and edit each and every post in any category that we want to get rid of, change the category name to the new one, then update the post. And we’ve got 15,000 posts here. Yikes. If we just go and snip a category, all the posts in it get dumped in the Miscellaneous category. And that’s kinda stupid, but there is no widget that says “Ooh, killing a category are you? What category would you like all the posts in there refiled under?”. So it’s going to take some time.
Admin volunteers wanted!
1st. Dumping everything in the Misc category is not a problem. If the admin who posted it is still around he/she/it can simply edit the post. It’s a self-correcting problem from your end. That’s how I view it.
As for admin volunteers, guess I’m it, for the moment. You and peiper being the super-admins, think I’m the only admin left.
A dirty job…
Admin volunteers wanted!
Oooh! Ooh! Please pick me!
Re: Admin volunteers wanted!
Drew, the Skipper picked me (and presumably you and peiper) based on our witty, unbiased, informative comments.
Granted, the Skipper also used to visit my personal blog and saw the kind of deeply thoughtful posts I was capable of.
Actually, I don’t know why he picked me. But I propose the following criteria. This is based on the employment terms I was hired under 21 years ago.
“You are on probation for 90 days. You can be fired for no reason at all during those 90 days.”
Words to that effect. Make it 90 posts? Make it 30 days/posts. Whatever. The point is to give them a go.
Anyway, I think Turtler might be ‘interesting’ as an admin. For 90 days/posts, whichever comes first.
I know. Crazy. I almost always disagree with Turtler.
I check out categories all the time whenever I want to read an older post.
Um, sorry, I wasn’t trying to recruit admins or volunteers. I was just pointing out that the ones we have have got a bit of work to do. If they want to. Otherwise I’ll whack at it from time to time until it’s finished.
If I went and killed the old posts from 2004-2008 it would make the task a lot easier too. I’m trying to avoid doing that, even though I’ve had to kill most of 2004’s posts in the past.