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Dawn of the First Day: An Update on the State of the Sub
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Hello everyone,

As we settle into the backend of the sub, I thought it fair and proper to provide you with some insight as to what we have been doing:

  1. We have put up disclaimers, notes, and alerts just about everywhere we can stating that this sub is not a replacement for actual legal advice, and you should make important decisions based on information you get here. We are emphasizing that even though we are stuck with the name r/AskALawyer , it is not to be taken literally. r/AskLawyers may be a viable alternative if you literally want to talk to lawyers, but please be cool to them over there if you do check them out. From here on out, consider this sub to be "Ask a Legal Enthusiast"
  2. We created, modified, and eliminated some rules. There's nothing there this is new in the sense that it is something we wouldn't have moderated before, but it now just more visible for the sake of full disclosure. Still working the text/definitions/standards for them, but you should be able to get the gist.
  3. We created....a lot...of bots that will supply you with helpful messages, prohibit some problematic posting, and automatically send items for review based on keywords. The one everyone will see is going to be Location Bot, which will flag any message title that does not have brackets in it with a reminder to post a location. There's a bunch of other ones based on common issues/phrases. This will likely cut down on the quantity of new posts but ultimately increase the quality of posts that do get made.
    1. NOTE: If you encounter anything weird with these, please let us know via mod mail or here. For some reason mods do not get to see the automations when they are pushed to go live. We really do want feedback on how these help/hinder the experience
  4. We turned on some Reddit harassment, ban evasion, and quality control tools. We'll see how these work and if they make sense to keep on, given that people tend to make throwaways for a lot of content here. Modmail is also filtered for harassment so whatever expletive you want to throw our way for daring to moderate you probably won't ever be seen by a human.
  5. We turned on automod that provides links to other legal subs people may be interested it - especially for our friends outside the US. Still working out what we want automod to say/do.
  6. For the time being, there are no user flairs to denote "Verified Lawyer" or "Not A Lawyer". We think we turned off all the flairs, but they seem to be showing up from time to time still on new posts so who knows if we actually did. Point is, those flairs are going away. Please don't ask us for them. Appropriate replacements will come eventaully, once we get things going.
  7. u/athena5000 is hard at work doing some design updates to the sub and I trust their very capable hands to do what they feel is best in that department. If you have any thoughts or comments, please let us know.

So there we have it folks. If you have any ideas, thoughts, feedback, please feel free to reach out in the comments below or via mod mail. Constructive criticism is welcome.

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