Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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I would like to edit my answer to replace the example, in order respond to a critique in the comments
I would like to make this edit, but it was rolled back.
The original example application of judicial notice that I have included in the answer is attracting comments that critique the judge's math. ...
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So long, and thanks for all the fish
Goodbye, y'all. I've been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) so I'm off to ammend my will and complete my bucket list before it's too late.
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Where exactly is my lack of focus?
A few hours ago, out of curiosity, I did post the following question
On the legality of seizing narco yachts
which was closed because it "needs to be more focused". If "board and ...
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Was this answer somewhat disingenuous in one or two ways? Or did it genuinely address the question as asked in good faith?
My question Can defendants arraigned in federal court sometimes be "out on bail" secretly with no way for the public to know about or verify the bail? asks if something is possible i.e "...
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What to do about AI edits that are helpful?
https://law.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/57118
This edit was quite clearly done with ChatGPT (see the last paragraph), but it does improve the post. How should edits like this be handled?
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How educational is too educational?
After almost six months being live, on 2023‑07‑28 Pat W. deleted my answer (for reference repeated below).
It is in style a full legal opinion as to be handed in at the end of a typical 120-minute ...
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Is the LawSE response to suspected AI generated posts still in force?
The Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned states that:
Posting GPT answers on Law Stack Exchange is temporarily banned.
And the answer from a Moderator when asked How should we handle ChatGPT answers? ...
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Should we have a LawSE definition of "educational purposes only"?
I'm inviting discussion and suggestions on the value of creating an faq post defining "Educational Purposes Only"
The home page's Banner has the embedded link educational purposes only that ...
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How To Deal wIth AI Postings At Law.SE
user @SergZ has a modus operandi of making lots of AI posts with minimal editing in other forums and appears to be doing so in this forum, but, of course, it is hard to tell sometimes.
I deleted one ...
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Where a question merely asks about a word's etymology, should it be asked here or on English.SE?
Some questions ask about the etymology of a word that happens to be used in law, but where there is nothing special about the word's use in law.
Is the mere fact that a word is used in law enough to ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 07/2023 — today)
Let me analogize this.
Does (Ontario's) Consumer Protection Act, 2002 protect Consumers travelling on the Toronto Transit Commission? Why or why not?
Did Instagram breach Business Practices and ...
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Does (Law) StackExchange reach out to law schools and professors?
To my pleasant surprise, I just spotted that George Mason University's Antonia Scalia Law School touts us!
Law Stack Exchange
Question-and-answer forum for legal professionals, students, and others ...
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Should Tor users be blocked?
I recently tried signing up on law.stackexchange.com through Tor (to ask a question anonymously), and the signup page wouldn't let me, consistently giving the error:
Something went wrong. Please ...
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Good place for questions about SE's TOS
If I have a question about legal details of the SE Terms of Service, is it better to ask on MSE, or is this site (also) an appropriate place to ask?
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tag:citations and tag:case-citations
I notice that there is overlap between the tags citations and case-citations.
citations:
15 questions, 11 of which are about citation practice (i.e. referencing or giving attribution for) materials, ...
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Can someone explain what is objectionable about this answer?
What kinds of formal logic have applications in law?
Can someone explain what is objectionable about this answer?
The others who answered seem at best to think that if the law is illogical or not ...
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Do the recent and upcoming policy changes and subsequent moderators' strike affect how LawSE moderates AI content?
TL;DR Can we have some clarity1, please? i.e. To flag or not to flag AI?
The most recent announcement from LawSE's per-site moderators is our temporary policy stating that ChatGPT is banned, which is ...
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What is wrong with my post
I recently posted on law stack exchange. My last post has two votes to close. I do not understand why. I am hoping somebody here can tell me what the issues is. Here is a link to the post:
Is this a ...
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Can I ask a question about good online resources for small business contracts?
Is it OK for me to ask abut online contract resources for small businesses. Clearly not instead of legal advice, but is it ok to ask about online contract resources?
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How will LawSE remedy mods' recurrent abuse of privileges? or will it ever do so?
Barely four days ago we witnessed what was then the latest instance of mods' abuse of privileges. Now another instance arises. Given the site's low activity, the recurrence of these incidents shows ...
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Proper Question Structure
I was scrolling down to Math Stack Exchange, and saw how they have the requirements to post a question, where you have to properly present the background of a question since they are not a "...
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revert tag:enw to tag:england-and-wales
I propose we revert the recent re-tags. england-and-wales is much clearer and well-established on this site. If needed, we can add a tag synonym for enw.
I raise this here instead of in a comment on ...
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synonym: AI -> Artificial Intelligence
AI is short for artificial intelligence. So we should synonym it. https://law.stackexchange.com/tags/artificial-intelligence/synonyms
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Admission, choosing Tags
I usually use as many tags as possible on a question to circumscribe the focus at the conjunction of these tags. However, there tends to be a main idea that is captured by one, and subscribers to ...
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What is the difference between [minor] and [juvenile-law]?
On the main site we have [minor]
Use this tag for questions related to the law for minors, i.e. persons who have not reached the age of majority (usually 16, 18, or 21 years).
and [juvenile-law], ...
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New form of micromanagement and censorship on LawSE
I used to provide in my answers about contract law a link to the Restatement (Second) of Contracts that some law firm posted on its website. The law firm subsequently removed that resource, thereby ...
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Are questions about how strong a case is valid?
I asked the question Do the Ohio sheriffs suing Afroman have any legal standing in their claim of "invasion of privacy and misappropriation of their likenesses" lawsuit? and a comment by ...
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How should we handle ChatGPT answers?
A new user has posted a number of answers in breach of the Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned.
There's no attempt to disguise its use, as each answer ends with:
Chatgpm
I assume they need flagging ...
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Need more focus close votes should require input from close voters
I asked the question "At what point can the government limit your 1st amendment right to free speech?" and within the body I refined the text to have only two specific questions regarding ...
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Complaint about moderator commenting behaviour
I came in to this question from the Hot Network Questions sidebar.
It does not reflect well on this Stack site to drop in on a question and see a moderator having a friendly comment exchange with ...
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Jurisdictions in answers
I have been told:
ensure that when you answer a question tagged with a specific jurisdiction, your answer is for that jurisdiction
And that:
Nobody uses tag in their answers.
This seems to be ...
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Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
Posting GPT answers on Law Stack Exchange is temporarily banned.
This policy has been adopted from Stack Overflow's current stance to give us time to work out our own. Most of the arguments for and ...
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Physician's clerk confirmed 4 months, but then cancelled 1 week, before appointment because Physician "reached capacity". What are Patient's remedies?
How can I make on topic Physician's clerk confirmed 4 months, but then cancelled 1 week, before appointment because Physician "reached capacity". What are Patient's remedies?? I ...
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Deletions on Law Meta
At least two related questions (this and this) a user posted on LawMeta have been deleted by the same moderator, who also heavily edited the underlying post. Both deletions seem unwarranted, and the ...
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Question on ending a marriage improperly closed as a request for legal advice
This question Divorce without the process of divorce; is it possible to obtain a dissolution after 15 years? was closed as a request dfoer specific lewgal advice. It turns out, as the answer by ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Is asking for precedent cases on topic?
Can I ask "has there ever been a legal case where X" (with appropriate specifics of course) here?
If it matters, the purpose wouldn't be to get legal advice for a legal case I'm involved in, ...
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Creeping requests for specific legal advice
Not infrequently, a given user will ask a large number of questions that all clearly pertain to a specific legal issue upon which the user would like specific legal advice, issue by issue.
What is the ...
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Is there no role for law in defining what words mean?
In a comment justifying the closure of a question that asked for definition of terms used by auto manufacturers, a user said:
There is no role for the law in defining what words mean
Is this correct?...
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Are questions asking for help in how to search for past cases on topic?
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Is asking how a member of the public without any special access might search for past cases with a specific criteria on topic here? I didn't see anything in the ...
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After Corporation terminates Consumer's contract for a false reason, what are Consumer's remedies?
I have a question about my Law Stack Exchange post: After Corporation terminates Consumer's contract for a false reason, what are Consumer's remedies?
What "details or clarity" do you need? ...
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Is [legal-history] ambiguous?
I was going through the questions on legal-history and realized that two different kinds of questions are covered:
Questions about the history of law, such as (as mentioned in the current tag wiki) &...
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Improper closure of question
this question on how to file a particular motion was closed by vote as being a request for specific legal advice, which I believe it was not. The initial closure was by a vote of 4 users, the last of ...
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Comments that are conversational
I flagged many, but not all, of the comments on this question and associated answer as not needed/conversational. The flags were declined.
They are mostly talking about the physical makeup of money, ...
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How long to wait before reposting an edited version of a closed question?
I asked a question which was not proper because it was too specific and could have been reasonably interpreted as asking for legal advice. The question was closed by moderators. I edited the question ...
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Is worse better?
I tried to ask the same question times on here.
The first two attempts were closed as "asking for specific legal advice".
I then wrote a version that was so bad it was rejected by the ...
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Is it appropriate to post answers/comments about the actual application of laws?
Oftentimes the way the law is written and the way it is applied do not seem to have much of a relationship to each other. I noticed in the answer to this question a comprehensive list of de jure ...
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What first-class lawyer would use, or cite, obscure Contract Law textbooks?
How can I salvage What first-class lawyer would use, or cite, obscure Contract Law textbooks??
To prove treaties like Chitty and Treitel are world famous, I'm quoting citations of them by ...
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Why is this question off topic?
I asked this question and in its original form it was closed as off topic on the grounds that it asked for specific legal advice
I was surprised given there are many questions which seem worse to me ...
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Pending edits for the [china] tag
The community's views are sought on two related suggested edits for the china tag:
The suggested "wiki" edit is:
The “Two Chinas” phenomenon makes this tag ambiguous.
And for the "tag ...
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