# Is drunk posting allowed? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 16, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433 "2007-02-16T01:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/41 "2007-02-19T02:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] Drunk moderating is still cool though, right? [/QUOTE] With some of the recent events, it might be the only way to get through the Forum. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/42 "2007-02-19T03:32:27Z")
Cmon 234 replies so far to “found a wallet from the 70s” You folks must be sippin somethin. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/43 "2007-02-19T21:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] We’re not going to close down a thread merely because the poster was on her second bottle of champagne; we will however hold people to the same standards we would under any circumstances, and close threads, warn misbehaviors, and take stern action for severe or repeated misbehaviors. [/QUOTE] But what if we’re on our second bottle of champagne and we’re still coming across with rational, reasoned discourse and sparklin’ manners… shouldn’t we get some special acknowledgement for that… or maybe some candy? I know… you could change our designation from “Charter Member” to [“Old Charter Member”](http://www.greatbourbon.com/oldcharter12y.html). ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/44 "2007-02-19T21:23:35Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I remember at least one member who was a perfectly fellow [/QUOTE] You’re a perfectly fellow too, m’old muckspreader. We’re ALL perfectly fellows! What you looking at? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/45 "2007-02-19T21:33:34Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] …and I honestly cant recall many inebriated posters except maybe **Otto**. [/QUOTE] See, that’s where he got his username from… he **Otto** not do that. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/46 "2007-02-20T03:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] See, that’s where he got his username from… he **Otto** not do that. [/QUOTE] That pun was so bad… I know a club in MPSIMS that might want to take a look at 😉 edited for spelling… i’m a fucking moron ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/47 "2007-02-20T17:45:16Z")
> [@Homer](#): > > …i really should mackdonna handheld shoehorn butterhorse… By far my favorite one liner from this board. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/48 "2007-02-23T02:37:55Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Chronos, if you don’t mind, who were you thinking of? You could PM me if you don’t want to say here. Wasn’t it **demos** (or some variant user name - it’s been a while now) who posted while drunk using the “n” word? ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/49 "2007-02-23T03:11:52Z")
I once posted a [drunken](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363381&highlight=drnk) thread, and it was closed in fairly short order, with the rationale that drunk posting was _not_ allowed, so at least as of about this time last year threads could be shut down if the OP was drunk. Can we consider the rule officially changed (i.e. that drunk posting is not outright disallowed)? P.S. I am in fact drunk at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/50 "2007-02-23T03:35:20Z")
With drunk driving, society has moved to a strict standard–if your BAC is above a certain point and for some reason you get tested, you’re guilty, whether or not you’re weaving all over the place. (Although I’m pretty sure in most places the converse is not true–you can still be busted if you’re actually demonstrably impaired, regardless of the quantitative concentration of alcohol in your blood.) But drunk driving involves piloting a multi-thousands-of-pounds moving object through public places, so things are necessarily stricter than message board moderation. I would say on a message board, we’re going to go more by a qualitative “are you weaving all over the place?” standard. If you can knock back a fifth of bourbon and post coherently and without insulting people or breaking any other rules, more power to you. (Though you’re probably doing your liver no good.) And on the other hand, if someone posts a pure nonsense thread while stone sober, it will likely be locked–there are things too mundane and pointless even for MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/51 "2007-02-23T22:04:55Z")
In which case, of course, the reason given for the lock-down should be, “this thread isn’t worth the space it’s taking up.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/52 "2007-02-23T22:34:26Z")
_Hic_ ::exhales slowly:: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/53 "2007-02-23T22:53:26Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] _Hic_ ::exhales slowly:: [/QUOTE] :: staggers from the secondhand buzz induced by breathing the fumes :: ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/54 "2007-02-24T05:09:32Z")
_Originally posted by **MEBuckner** _ > [@](#): > > …there are things too mundane and pointless even for MPSIMS. Cite? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/55 "2007-02-24T12:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=Gorgon Heap] Cite? 😉 [/QUOTE] Your post is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433/56 "2007-02-24T18:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=rayh] Your post is my cite. [/QUOTE] _yoink_ Now it’s MY cite mwahahahahaha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-drunk-posting-allowed/392433.md?page=2)