I propose that there ought to be a way for the mods of a site to put up a prominent disclaimer that shows up on every page and makes it clear that the site does not offer professional services.
For example, on mi.yodeya, the SE 1.0 site that was the starting point for Judaism.SE, the header of e...
@nomenagentis Rabbinical advice, you mean? Are you asking about Mi Yodeya?
I can’t see how there’d be legal liability, except perhaps in exceptional circumstances, but I can see why they’d want a disclaimer. Legal liability is not the only form of liability about which people are concerned.
@nomenagentis Also, I think the term they’d use is advice on practical halakhah.
@nomenagentis I agree this isn't an ideal answer to the original question, but it's not uninformative. At this stage I'd rather err on the side of leaving content. The comments illustrate the shortcomings, and if the community thinks it's that bad an answer it will eventually disappear.
@feetwet Okay. I'm fine with the caveat that this is only being done for now under the assumption that some content is better than no content. I hope that eventually changes, though :) I also disagree that informativeness should be our threshold for allowing text to remain as an answer (I can imagine a lot of informative things that I would expect to be deleted as "not an answer".)
Looks like somebody has written a better answer already anyway
I would agree with that. Mainly because the alternative could encourage "soapbox"-type answers that appeal to politics and motivations rather than law.
Yes, and I saw that problem with the initial answer, which is why I heavily edited it.
But especially when it's a new user I'd rather give a little coaching and let them potentially keep some rep for participating than just delete their answer, which tends to make people not want to come back.
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