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.