# Ellen Cherry Game Room moderation **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 17, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315 "2010-01-17T14:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/1 "2010-01-17T14:48:53Z")
I would like to voice a complaint about Ellen Cherry’s moderation in the Game Room, specifically in the sports threads. Last week she handed out warnings to me and cricetus in an NFL thread for “being a jerk”. She is clearly not aware of how trash talking has worked in the Game Room for well over a year, nor even **that entire thread** both before and after her warnings. When I tried to engage her via PM she just flat-out ignored me. This morning she demonstrated seemingly willful moderating ineptitude by combining two of three Australian Open threads. Here are the three OPs, read them in isolation: (Don’t worry, they’re short.) [One](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11998112&postcount=1) [Two](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12001950&postcount=3) [Three](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12000287&postcount=1) She actually combined two and three, keeping three as the OP of the combined thread. I mean, seriously, is she willfully antagonistic to sports, or was this merely an epic fail? I mean, even just the _titles_ of those posts make it clear which two should be combined. In what universe is three the right choice? I don’t even understand what’s being said in three. What’s the deal? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/2 "2010-01-17T18:00:31Z")
Got a link to the warnings? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/3 "2010-01-17T18:12:39Z")
Nevermind, I found them [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11981305&postcount=1120). I think there’s a stronger case to support your warning rather than the one issued to **cricetus** , but a “knock it off” or “dial it back a notch” type note would have been sufficient under the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/4 "2010-01-17T19:03:48Z")
It’s my personal opinion that the trash-talking has to come to an end in the Game Room. It’s going to erupt in all-out flame wars. The sub-forum doesn’t need a special rule about being a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/5 "2010-01-17T19:36:10Z")
Regarding the three Australian Open threads, I saw but two. Apologies. Regarding the warnings, yes “trash talk” goes on and is unavoidable. When it fans into insults, I step in. They’re judgment calls. ETA: I may be unaware of some of the finer points of thread-combining. I’m still rather new at this. I’ll get it figured out. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/6 "2010-01-17T20:18:38Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > This morning she demonstrated seemingly willful moderating ineptitude by combining two of three Australian Open threads. Here are the three OPs, read them in isolation: (Don’t worry, they’re short.) > > […] > > She actually combined two and three, keeping three as the OP of the combined thread. I mean, seriously, is she willfully antagonistic to sports, or was this merely an epic fail? I mean, even just the _titles_ of those posts make it clear which two should be combined. In what universe is three the right choice? I don’t even understand what’s being said in three. In what universe is this pointless rudeness called for? I don’t know which of the threads were reported, if any. Yes, it made more sense to combine the two prediction threads. That has now been done. [There’s one thread for discussion of the tournament](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547984) and [one thread for the TV question.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=548059) I thought the warnings were deserved. I like some trash talk in The Game Room but these posts (and the ones leading up to them) are too much: > [@Season Long NFC North Discussion Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-long-nfc-north-discussion-thread/508514/1094): > > [I know you’re still butthurt about this from a couple weeks ago, but I think I know what the difference is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11980276) > [@Season Long NFC North Discussion Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-long-nfc-north-discussion-thread/508514/1107): > > [Your snide, immature attitude about manliness is still snide and immature, nothing but a lot of blather, completely pointless, lowers the discussion to the kind that drunk guys have at bars, as is inexcusable.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11980399) ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/7 "2010-01-17T21:55:47Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > … > ETA: I may be unaware of some of the finer points of thread-combining. I’m still rather new at this. I’ll get it figured out. … . One of my threads my have been merged into another. I asked a question about \*\ ***ESPN2’s coverage** _of the Australian Open and it got merged into a thread about the **Australian Open per se** _. I see the two as completely different subjects, apparently some, curiously, don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/8 "2010-01-17T21:58:13Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > One of my threads my have been merged into another. I asked a question about \*\ ***ESPN2’s coverage** _of the Australian Open and it got merged into a thread about the **Australian Open per se** _. I see the two as completely different subjects, apparently some, curiously, don’t. Per **Marley’s** post, your thread has now been split back out. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/9 "2010-01-18T17:29:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I thought the warnings were deserved. I like some trash talk in The Game Room but these posts (and the ones leading up to them) are too much: Nobody has yet pointed out what the personal insult in my post was that I got warned for. And she has completely ignored my PM, so the rudeness started with her. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-cherry-game-room-moderation/525315/10 "2010-01-18T18:20:56Z")
I read your PM, so it was not ignored. I simply saw no reason to reiterate what you’d already been told. I didn’t believe that I was being rude, and I am truly sorry that you would feel that way. Your remark that was insulting was pointed out in that thread and now, in this thread. A PM from me would have said the same thing.