Question about something puzzling in the rules

EagledriverAGRS

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Sorry guys, I have experience on forums but have never been on a drug-related forum before...what does this mean, in the rules?


"SWIM/my pet hamster/my mum's iguana"?

There is a prohibition against posting such things, and I have no idea what they are or why I would want to post them...I assume it is a code of some sort and I don't wish to violate this rule inadvertently.

Besides, what a random collection of nonsense...I am very curious!


Thank you!
 
'swim' stands for 'someone who isn't me'. in online forums, people have traditionally used pseudonyms like this in an effort to avoid self-incrimination e.g. "swim just bought 5 grams of coke".

it's silly, annoying to read and doesn't protect people.

alasdair
 
It goes back to another forum DF who used to use that and it was a rule to do so in fact. You would be infracted for using the first person as they thought it was incremenating. So people would come on here to post and use SWIM takes drugs and it makes things unreadable. Even the forum DF banned its use due to how silly it is.
 
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