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Thanks @mell that is a good idea, but legal advice in particular is hazardous, because the lawyer lobby ruthlessly prosecutes anyone offering advice outside of their official channels. Threatens lawyer revenue and power, and is therefore illegal.
But I like this general idea of post a question and offer to pay for an answer. How would that work exactly? It kind of flips the script on what I have now. Instead of first posting something and asking for payment for it, you would post a question and offer to pay for an answer.
How would you ensure quality of the answers you pay for? You would probably want to know the answer before deciding whether to pay, to weed out the non-answers and scams. I suppose you could offer to tip for a good answer, but then the risk is on the side of someone composing a good answer.
Is there a way to share risk between the asker and the answerer?
There should be zero risk if there is a disclaimer saying answers are for informational/entertainment purposes only amd not actual legal advice.
mell says
There should be zero risk if there is a disclaimer saying answers are for informational/entertainment purposes only amd not actual legal advice.
I mean that there is a risk to you if you pay for an answer before seeing it. The answer might be crap.
And in the other direction, if you demand to see the answer before paying, the person who answered has the risk of not getting paid for a good answer.
you validate that background permits me to awnser a specifix type of quesrion
What I meant is there is no risk of "experts" suing you as long as there is a disclaimer.
mell says
What I meant is there is no risk of "experts" suing you as long as there is a disclaimer.
I'm not entirely sure of that. Need to ask a lawyer! Lol.
But the general idea of registered experts answering questions seems validated by the existence of https://go.experts-exchange.com/
Thing is, they demand a monthly subscription fee, which is bad. I think paying per answer is better.
One of my college jobs was in the HR room at Bechtel in Ann Arbor, where they had a staff of several people who would literally validate every line on every incoming resume for nuclear power plant job
Is "you" patrick.net or the person asking the question?
If it's patrick.net, I don't really know how to validate someone's resume without doing a lot of work.
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