So are they going into actual content for those paths? Swinging and polyamory are subsets of cuckolding or vice versa. And I know many who don't count polyamory as that when one of the partners plays for the other team. Full blown poly is swinging magnified. Otherwise, it's actually polygamy or (i think this is what the female version was called) polyandry used as propaganda for polyamory (we already know that polyandry is not going to happen here).
I try to be informed when we see these show up. I prefer making informed and educated choices rather than leaps of "faith"
What are you going on about? You have a lot of misconceptions there.
I've been part of the ethical nonmonogamy community since 1981 (before polyamory was coined). Pretty much none of what you said above is accurate. Neither polyamory or swinging is about cuckolding. I'm not sure where you came up with that idea.
There are some polyamorous people who are also swingers, but it is by no means all of them. Polyamory is about loving multiple people, forming ongoing intimate bonds, not just "sport fucking" strangers.
Polygamy is marriage to multiple people regardless of gender. Because most polygamist forms we hear about are polygynous, people who don't actually seek to learn tend to think they are the same thing. Polygyny is the word for multiple women, polyandry is the word for multiple men.
Polyamorous people may, or may not be married to a partner. Most younger people prefer to go with "solo poly" or "relationship anarchy," which doesn't assume marriage partners. Polyamorous networks I've seen usually contain trans, non-binary, demisexual and even asexual individuals.
Please try harder to be informed next time.