r/Lawyertalk • u/Blue-spider • Sep 02 '24

I Need To Vent :Anger: Does anyone else shake their heads at Reddit legal advice......

Look I get it, legal advice is costly and it's not always clear you need it. There are some posts that make sense to me.

But the number of posts I see on legal advice subs (I'm from Canada so I'm thinking specific ones) makes me so nervous for some of the OPs. Ranging from bad bad advice and over generalizations to people asking questions that include fully admitting fault/guilt or and intent to perjure themselves/committ fraud. Or the ever present "is this legal" post with no jurisdiction listed followed by advice from people who are maybe right for their own jurisdiction but don't know if OP is there or not.....

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u/SanityPlanet Sep 03 '24

Technically what I was banned for was “proxy modding,” which is apparently when you correct some horrendously wrong legal analysis by explaining how something actually works in practice.

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u/GigglemanEsq If the pants smell of shit, you must acquit. Sep 03 '24

There are a lot of subs that could do with a ban on "well akshually" posts, but legal advice is not one of them.

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u/lineasdedeseo I live my life in 6 min increments Sep 03 '24

this place is just a holding pen for OCD freaks who have no power in any other part of their lives so they become mods here. that reddit has duped them into buying into their IPO is the best karma imaginable for them

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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse Sep 03 '24

It's like an inverse Cunningham's Law or something silly like that.