I see posts on here all the time asking for help with legal, workplace, housing, or consumer rights issues, but the original poster leaves out where they live.
Since Lemmy is a global platform, an answer that is 100% accurate in the US might be totally wrong or useless in Canada, the UK, or the EU, or even between different US states. Something like tenant rights or consumer laws (like optometrist prescription rules) changes completely depending on jurisdiction. Without knowing where someone is, commenters either give bad advice based on their own country’s laws or waste time asking “Where are you located?” before they can even answer.
Obviously, privacy matters, and no one should feel forced to give away their exact city or dox themselves. Stating just a country, state, or province keeps you anonymous while giving people enough context to actually help.
Should communities encourage or require basic location tags for advice posts, or is there a better way to handle this?
I find it weird how often I see meta posts here about people wanting to restrict content when there just aren’t that many posts here, anyway.
The last 24 hours were super busy, and there’s a whole 13 posts including this one… Most days have like 4 or 5 posts. What does any of this matter?