User blog comment:Nalyd Renrut/You Don't Have To Go Home/@comment-3105751-20110321192338

Short answer? No, I don't think there's a point.

Long answer: Some people take alcohol better than others- if a person is just a bit drunk, and they say so, but don't do anything further, why kick them? What did they do wrong? We're not therapists. We can't make people live their lives a certain way.

Although you may say that this is a "kid's site," is it, though? The youngest IRC user I've seen has been 12, and they were actually against this being a rule. The fact is, the idea of "protecting the children" has been made by parents who are too afraid to teach their children what life is really about. And guess what? They learn it the hard way. And I'm not buying into that.

This is such a minor issue, and the only thing it does is possibly kick someone who is slightly tipsy. With or without this rule, would we not kick out someone being disruptive, anyways?

The bottom line is, this rule protects/helps no one, but it may cause users to get kicked just because they casually drank with their friends..I can't support that. Once again: We are not the morality police, and people will make their own decisions.