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So provide them with expert advice for free? Do you think lawyers get this urge?

• Retra 10y ago
  It's not for free: it's in exchange for a potentially better experience.
• lucb1e 10y ago
  Woa you only ever give paid "expert" advice? Do you also not talk to colleagues in other companies on conferences because you think a lawyer would not have that urge either? Or more generally, if you see a bike light forgotten and left on, do you not helpfully turn it off just because you wouldn't be paid when doing so?
• throwanem 10y ago
  Lawyers don't decline to give legal advice for free just because they want paying, although they do, and fair enough. Law is a highly complex and recondite field, and a solid answer on any but the most trivial question requires nontrivial research to identify with confidence. Lawyers also have a professional guild to which to answer, and if they say something offhand which turns out to be erroneous in a way that brings someone to grief, their guild will not be pleased with them. In fairness, I probably wouldn't take the time here either; on the one hand, I block ads anyway and so don't have such problems, and on the other, I tend only to do that when it's to my own direct benefit that the issue be fixed, and broken ads on a site I'll visit once ever don't meet that test - when Postmates screws up their UI and I have to stub out some analytics functions to place an order, they get an email; here, I'd just add the site to my JS blacklist, reload, read, and go on about my day.
  • RugnirViking 10y ago
    'A highly complex and recondite field, and a solid answer on any but the most trivial question requires nontrivial research to identify with confidence.' So very much like the problem identified here then? I agree with your sentiment though.
    • throwanem 10y ago
      No, the problem identified here is utterly trivial by comparison.
• metachris 10y ago
  Never share without a fee then? Not quite the world I want to live in...