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Originally Posted by Mykel
The rule says promoting. Simply talking about it in a regular fashion isn't promoting it.
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Assume for a moment that the parents of a player actually find the forums. They have a look around to see what their children are reading.
Now, is the first thing coming to their mind "Oh, probably some of these people are over 18," or is it "Ok, these people are probably my child's age and they are discussing drinking alcohol. This is a bad influence. My child is not going to come here anymore."?
That's just one scenerio. The other is it makes the forums as a whole look bad. This isn't a usergroup oriented around discussing illegal activities. And yes, there is a difference between alcohol and driving. It[alcohol] ruins lives. Don't bring your arguments in with the "well omg bad drivers ruin lives", because that doesn't matter. Most people under the legal age to drive won't be able to drive, and probably won't be bad drivers if they. I know alot of kids who drink though, and there is no quantity control; they get absolutely hammered because they are young and stupid and don't know the effects. I don't want someone else to get that idea from here.
Ok, so I'm not a moderator, but those are the reasons I like the rule in place.