[mordae]

Not really. I believe you are liable if the other person understands you are advising them based on your expertise in the specific field.

1. So if someone tells you they are a lawyer and then proceeds to tell you to do something illegal, they might be liable.

2. Some with engineers. If somebody tells you they make living wiring mains in houses and then proceeds to tell you to remove cover from a power supply and tweak it, they might be liable if you get shocked or your house burns down.

But I am not a lawyer.

For example, in Czech civil code there is something along the lines of:

> Section 5

> (1) Any person who publicly or in communication with another person presents themselves as a member of a certain profession or status, thereby indicating their ability to act with the knowledge and diligence associated with their profession or status, shall be held accountable if they act without the requisite professional care.

[ransackdev]

So you’re saying that you can be sued for telling a story, based on your life experience, just because someone on the internet interpreted it as advice?

So then every comment ever made that wasn’t intentional trolling and fiction then. Must be a backlogged court system with all those cases of someone being held liable for the perception of another. How does one prove they perceived something as advice? Wouldn’t it be easy to throw out short of the comment literally saying, “my advice would be”.