Yes, but isn't there an ask legal community that those posts should go to?

I find it weird how often I see meta posts here about people wanting to restrict content when there just aren't that many posts here, anyway.

The last 24 hours were super busy, and there's a whole 13 posts including this one... Most days have like 4 or 5 posts. What does any of this matter?

More regulation!

/s

I find it neat when a question has different answered depending on jurisdiction.

Anyone getting legal advice from anonymous people is making a big mistake.

Anyone asking legal advice from anonymous people who are part of a virtual penal colony is insane.

your protecting people from themselves. people should be taking answers in a forum like this with a grain of salt to begin with and its up to them to provide enough detail to get better answers.

If we're going to make a rule about legal advice, it should simply be "Don't ask for legal advice." Then again, it's really against rule 5 anyway. This is not a support community.

Different countries also have state/terrorist/province/local laws too...

Like, it's up to the person asking how detailed they want to be, and the vast majority of posts don't need a location tag...

If someoneneeded it and didn't use it, someone's gonna ask.

I don't see why there needs to be a requirement

I would be opposed to requiring it. I think that even an example from another state or country might have useful bearing on how things work elsewhere.

I mean, end of the day, if you're going to go out and ask anonymous people on a forum legal questions, I think that it's safe to say that it might be a useful starting point for further investigation, possibly involving talking to a lawyer. But I wouldn't go do something with major risk based just on what they say. I don't think that it's going to be really practical to change that.

The discussion could be relevant to more than just the original poster if other people with similar cases find the same thread later. If the OP is forced to state their jurisdiction, the discussion might be more focused, but potentially less useful to others.

Probably not. It is up to the poster to provide information as needed and to understand what should be provided.

That said, I've noticed that some people get downright nasty when asking for help but it isn't exactly what they want to hear.

No, they should be banned.

Such questions need to handled by professionals, not internet 'experts'.

It could be a rule in the sidebar. OTOH, it could be against rule #5 which says "this is not a support community."