Can anyone clarify what this community is for? The only post here suggests it’s to replace the auslaw subreddit, which is mostly lawyers shit-talking about the legal profession and a lot of fun. However it’s got the same name as the auslegal subreddit, which is a train wreck of non-lawyers asking other non-lawyers legal questions and getting terrible hot takes and badly Googled answers in reply.
I understand the “build it and they will come” mentality. Without a place to start those discussions, I presume they won’t start at all.
I suppose it’s a bit of a question about how do we define what a sub is for and let people know? Even then, no guarantee people will run with it.
I think legally-themed communities are prone to falling into the pit of people asking for legal advice on the internet at the best of times. I know the mods at the auslaw subreddit, despite as clearly as possible saying “no legal advice, no real lawyer is going to answer you,” spend plenty of time removing legal advice requests or people saying “not asking for legal advice, but hypothetically, if I had a kg of meth down my pants, could the police search me? Just hypothetically?”
Well, the sidebar is about the only way. A series of stickied posts too maybe.
A moderator, usually the person that floats the idea of the community to the admin, would edit it in and explain the purpose.
I notice this hasn’t got a sidebar so there is no listed purpose. Since it got created to recreate reddit, we can assume the purpose was the same as over there?
Have you thought about messaging the admin and taking it over? You could be the one to build it?