You have a point, I re-read the forum guidelines. It’s a strong recommendation.
Anonymity
Our members join our community to share with other people living with similar illnesses. Because many of our forums are public, we must keep our identities completely anonymous. In that way, we can discuss the role our significant others play in our lives without publicly embarrassing them. Likewise, we keep anonymous so that teachers, employers, fellow students or coworkers can not “Google” and identify our community posts. To protect your anonymity, members should not communicate with each other off this site. We ask that members not exchange phone numbers or meet in person. Our experience is that these ‘offsite’ relationships can be disastrous (especially when one member becomes pathologically dependent or manipulative towards the other). Basically - be careful. If you ever meet anyone offline - be sure that a friend or family member has full information about the person you are meeting - phone number, email address, and information like that.
How do you get to the forum rules anyway? I know that I have found them before and read them but there is no direct link at the top of the page or anything. It would probably be helpful to people if there was a direct link to them at the top of the page next to “Home About Contact us FAQ”.
I was given dets from a person through no fault of my own through a pm and I was upset by this and asked a mod what to do and they told me to flag it, so I did. The person left me alone after that. I have a bff on this site that I’ve never shared dets with. I’m usually a rule person to the best of my ability. It’s just sometimes I can’t help myself and I do stupid stuff.