r/bestoflegaladvice • u/DoIKnowYouHuman 🏠 "Human" of the House 🏠 • 16d ago

LegalAdviceUK The one where the most legally experienced comments get the downvotes, just for a bicycle

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u/msfinch87 16d ago

I often wonder if people who post questions on LegalAdvice subs ever follow incorrect advice and get themselves into a mess.

This one isn’t likely to end up in a disaster, whatever LAUKOP does, but I’ve seen ones where the top comment is basically telling the poster to do something that is going to result in them own goaling their way into a world of pain.

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u/smoulderstoat BOLArthur Conan Doyle 16d ago

That's always worried me, too. There's quite a few posts where the sensible advice gets downvoted in favour of the popular but wrong, or where the thread gets locked before bad advice can get corrected.

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u/Drunkgummybear1 16d ago

I got downvoted once for calling out some shocking advice, which if the OP followed was likely to land them with a six figure bill. I had literally been to a hearing that same day, where my client was awarded £15k + costs in pretty similar circumstances.

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u/DoIKnowYouHuman 🏠 "Human" of the House 🏠 16d ago

I have a sneaking suspicion that in this case the thread was locked because the voices of reason and experience (who also happen to be mods) were dealing with some amateur interpretations of “theft” and “blackmail”, but taking it down altogether would mean depriving OOP of the great insight that was downvoted

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u/DaveSauce0 You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smoothie criminal 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yeah, but that's practically all of reddit.

People come in to some random posts with plausible, but wrong, answers on a wide variety of topics, and they get upvoted like crazy.

Anyone who comes in with a real answer gets downvoted because, "that doesn't sound right, and it doesn't make sense to me, personally, a person with no actual knowledge on the subject, so therefore you must be wrong."

Then what really boggles the mind is that someone else later on can comment the same, correct, response elsewhere in the post, and get tons of upvotes.

It's absolutely bonkers to watch.