Can anyone clarify what this community is for? The only post here suggests it’s to replace the auslaw subreddit, which is mostly lawyers shit-talking about the legal profession and a lot of fun. However it’s got the same name as the auslegal subreddit, which is a train wreck of non-lawyers asking other non-lawyers legal questions and getting terrible hot takes and badly Googled answers in reply.

    • EchinodermOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I understand the “build it and they will come” mentality. Without a place to start those discussions, I presume they won’t start at all.

      I suppose it’s a bit of a question about how do we define what a sub is for and let people know? Even then, no guarantee people will run with it.

      I think legally-themed communities are prone to falling into the pit of people asking for legal advice on the internet at the best of times. I know the mods at the auslaw subreddit, despite as clearly as possible saying “no legal advice, no real lawyer is going to answer you,” spend plenty of time removing legal advice requests or people saying “not asking for legal advice, but hypothetically, if I had a kg of meth down my pants, could the police search me? Just hypothetically?”

  • NathA
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    1 year ago

    It exists to be whatever the subscribers need from it. If it isn’t fulfilling the needs of the people we can happily create a community that might. For now, it is yet to find its feet.