# New Moderator in The Game Room **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064 "2008-07-02T17:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/21 "2008-07-03T14:35:58Z")
But we just call him “Sally”. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/22 "2008-07-03T16:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] But we just call him “Sally”. [/QUOTE] As in “Sally forth, good man, and do the right thing”? Yeah. I’m going with that. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/23 "2008-07-03T16:27:23Z")
Congrats! Seems like a pretty cushy gig – your main job is marking Feud threads “closed” when so instructed. Or are the RPGers really rowdy in the threads I don’t read? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/24 "2008-07-03T17:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] I love puzzles. All kinds of puzzles, but especially mind games and math games (I used to teach computer science and a bit of game theory). [/QUOTE] So, what are the three words ending in “-gry”? Congrats to you. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/25 "2008-07-03T17:36:29Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] I’ve been into computer games since I first played Moon Landing on a PDP-8 in 1975. I went through the original Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, and so forth on minicomputers and mainframes. When I got my Apple ][, I played the ported arcade games (actually rolled over the score on Galaga), and really got into it on my Atari 800 (I still have both computers). [/QUOTE] OMG, he’s one of us! Now, if only I could find the rest of “us.” We’d be a hell of a team at something!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/26 "2008-07-03T17:54:02Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Congrats! Seems like a pretty cushy gig – your main job is marking Feud threads “closed” when so instructed. Or are the RPGers really rowdy in the threads I don’t read? [/QUOTE] Well we’re likely to storm a few castles now and then, but it is us Baseball & Football fans that will cause him the most grief. Oh wait, I forgot about that small pack of Football\* Hooligans. Jim - Soccer for us Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/27 "2008-07-03T19:30:09Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] So, what are the three words ending in “-gry”? [/QUOTE] Hungry, angry, and modgry. In case you’re not familiar with that last word, modgry is defined as “the state of being in need of a moderator.” It can be used to describe certain users or certain threads. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/28 "2008-07-03T20:43:06Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] Hungry, angry, and modgry. In case you’re not familiar with that last word, modgry is defined as “the state of being in need of a moderator.” It can be used to describe certain users or certain threads. [/QUOTE] 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wavry. All mimsy were the borogroves, And the Mods all modgry. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/29 "2008-07-03T23:16:02Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] Hungry, angry, and modgry. In case you’re not familiar with that last word, modgry is defined as “the state of being in need of a moderator.” It can be used to describe certain users or certain threads. [/QUOTE] You’re a mod who is smart, openminded and has a sense of humor (bookmark this!) – you’ll go far. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/30 "2008-07-04T04:19:14Z")
Do you have to earn jackboots or do they come with the appointment? I’ve always been curious, but a little afraid to ask. You seem sooooo nice though. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/31 "2008-07-04T12:57:18Z")
[http://tinyurl.com/5efrv6](http://tinyurl.com/5efrv6) (For summer.) ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/32 "2008-07-04T13:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] [http://tinyurl.com/5efrv6](http://tinyurl.com/5efrv6) (For summer.) [/QUOTE] ROFL Here’s some chocolate! Step on me, baby! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/33 "2008-07-04T19:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] Hungry, angry, and modgry. In case you’re not familiar with that last word, modgry is defined as “the state of being in need of a moderator.” It can be used to describe certain users or certain threads. [/QUOTE] It can also mean the tasks of a moderator, such as, reading and moving posts, issuing warnings, wearing jackboots, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064/34 "2008-07-04T20:10:23Z")
Judging from your responses to this post, I think you will fit right in with the other moderators. (This is not necessarily a good thing). 😉 Congrats!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-in-the-game-room/455064.md?page=1)