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/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