From the BDD guidelines:
NO DRUG TESTING QUESTIONS
NO PILL OR SUBSTANCE ID THREADS If you have an unknown substance, there is no way for us to know what you have without a test. Otherwise it's purely speculative, and your subjective experience of a drug will differ from someone else's. A false sense of security based on speculation could be dangerous.
Whilst "no drug testing questions" is not elaborated on, I think that it quite clear that it falls under the same reasoning as the "no pill or substance ID threads" and the reasons further elaborated upon of which I have highlighted in bold. Notice how it specifies that there is no way to know
without a test? Seems kind of relevant to me.
I can not see any reason whatsoever why there is no problem discussing wedinos, energy control, or any kind of drug testing which is
not 'purely speculative' or 'your subjective experience'. We have historically had relationships with MDMA pill testing companies, not to mention pillreports.com. The point of the the ID rules are to avoid "What did I take type threads", "is my yellow amphetamine real amphetamine", or "can I tell if my alprazolam is the real deal if tastes bitter", etc etc, and to me it seems that the no drug testing rule probably stems from that.
I think it's clear that a little bit of logic and rationality needs to be exercised here. The no drug testing question rule does not make sense, and if that's the case then it could (should) IMO be revised.
If people are wildly speculating on substances based upon subjective and anecdotal speculation then it's problematic. If people are using lab testing services or test kits then it could and should be encouraged, and has been for years.
The rules to bluelight are fluid and can be changed. Whoever happened to write the rule at the time was not necessarily an institution when it came to implementing rules, and the rules are not necessarily logically valid or future proof; lab testing services such as energy control and wedinos were quite simply not available back when such rules were written.
If a rule doesn't make sense, we change it. It seems to be that there is a consensus so far that discussing wedinos, energy control, etc is beneficial, and I can't see why it isn't.
If anybody can provide some valid argument about why testing questions in their entirety should be banned, I think everybody would be happy to hear them. That also stands for if
certain testing questions should be disallowed because the results are too vague; in that case we simply make amendments to the guidelines and clarify them & update the rules/BLUA.