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Maine
1 review
9 helpful votes
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So I signed up as Insane Jane thinking that nobody would bother with free internet advice from an Insane Jane. Well the senior members accuse everybody of being guilty or wrong. Maybe 09% of the info is correct.
Most of the threads are written by 3 of the seniors. It's so obvious when you ask them a simple question and they can't answer it.

Date of experience: March 1, 2017
Tennessee
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Full of toxic bullies.
December 11, 2019

These folks are a click of toxic bullies. Not sure who the moderators are but if you put one of the legal experts' in their place, your post will likely be deleted. It's not a forum where credentials are verified nor is it there as a means to facilitate productive and enriching conversations.

Date of experience: December 11, 2019
Washington
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Site of losers
June 18, 2019

Disgusting power hungry members. Probably, some losers who do not have any customers in real life and want to feel themselves valuable there. Some member 24/7 there and clearly don; t have a real quality life. The site is. Absolutely no productive or helpful and waste of time. Instead of answering the question, they will behave like some jerks asking the stupidest questions not related to questions. Plus, they disrespectful re. Your privacy when you ask to delete the question you found an answer. They will not do it. Let you feel there like you a prisoner who doesn't have any rights what to do with own posts. 0 stars from me.

Date of experience: June 18, 2019
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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There are a handful of people who give out advice. From what I can discern it's mostly judgment about the poster and less advice. I think there are few good gems buried in all the junk.

I responded to a thread that was more than a few years old. The responder was aggressive and rude. The thread was closed out within an hour of my posting to it! It's kind of insane to see that level of acrimony. I was debating whether or not I should post a question but I changed my mind after that experience and after reading their reviews here.

I think anyone is better off just calling a lawyer and get a free consult. These legal internet forums are just platforms for an insult :p

Date of experience: May 11, 2018
New Jersey
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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This place is a cesspool! If you want to be degraded, bullied, ridiculed, insulted and if you dare to speak up, banned, the site is perfect! There's nothing legal about the whole thing and the site is used to push people towards sleazy lawyers that pay them to be advertised. Protect your privacy and never share information with anyone from that site! I was literally told to go kill myself by a "volunteer"!

Date of experience: April 1, 2020
Ohio
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Waste of Time
April 28, 2016

Unless you're doing research on cyber attacks and bullying, because the forum is run by a horde of "senior members," whose sole purpose is to personally attack people, no matter the moral content of the question. In many cases, moderated forums would not tolerate such behavior, but on freeadvice.com, the moderator is ineffective. They took down the thread I posted when requested, but it appears, they are doing nothing about the horde, because they continue to attack innocent posters for no reason other than they are pitiful people that can.

Date of experience: April 28, 2016
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have asked a couple of questions on this forum and every time I get a response members always try and judge my post and they never answer my questions until I demand that they do. They always state that I believe there is more to this story your not telling me. In my past post I had a senior member who stated that my statements supported by evidence are opinions everything that he said was not supported by any evidence and was based solely on his feelings. https://forum.freeadvice.com/threads/what-to-do-if-a-company-destroys-video-evidence.*******/ https://forum.freeadvice.com/threads/can-illegally-obtained-evidence-be-used-in-the-absence-of-evidence.*******/

Date of experience: July 22, 2021
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Not Credible
April 17, 2018

This site takes down positive reviews of companies. I watch my company's online presence and we had three customers write positive reviews and they removed them and then dropped us down. 5 stars. They also allow inaccurate information all over this site. It's not credible!

Date of experience: April 17, 2018
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Was hoping to get a serious evaluation of what people would think that a judge would decide in my case. The "senior" members just repeatedly posted personal attacks and reworded each of my posts in order to suit their own illogical replies. Complete incompetent idiocy.

One senior member literally posted, "What OTHER driver? And what exactly do you mean by liability in favor of? You already said that Geico determined that the other driver was 100% at fault." They posted this after I wrote an entire paragraph talking about the driver of the vehicle that collided with mine. And another paragraph talking about how GEICO determined liability in favor of the other driver.

Date of experience: April 27, 2017
New York
3 reviews
40 helpful votes
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The admin, mary, let "senior" members talk down to, harass and bully new members who are looking for help and advice.

As everyone has said this site is worthless and so are the members who have sad lives to bully people who need help.

There is a special place in hell for them

Date of experience: June 10, 2016
Wyoming
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Just awful
December 7, 2015

I wish I could give this site no stars. This isn't a legal advice site, this is an alternate site for grownups that bully 8 years olds on YouTube site. I was harassed and stalked by a senior member because I wouldn't explain my moral standing (when I had explained thoroughly) on my post. She was maybe just not smart enough to finish reading the answer? When I say stalked I mean this stranger followed me for 2 days responding to every post I made with "go to Yahoo, you don't fit in here. This isn't an advice column, this is a real legal advice page" Then shared her entire story of her childhood in a post that was irrelevant to anything - ever. Ok... Really weird to say the least. I erased everything and am awaiting a deactivation- I don't want these jokers anywhere near my personal information. What a scam. It was like a hellish version of anonymous high school with grownups acting like 8 years old bullies. I'd stay away if you want real advice have a free consultation.

Date of experience: December 7, 2015
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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It's almost mostly the same people answering your questions a bunch of nasty bullies you're always wrong and nothing else it's just a waste of time talking to them they are of no help. If you want someone to argue with this is the place for you. CBG northern girl, zigner, ohiogal, steer clear of these people.

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
Washington
3 reviews
40 helpful votes
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One of if not THE MOST hostile website forum I have ever been on since the internet began. Even the most innocent of questions will be slammed, YOU will be slammed. Are these atty's? Or even adults? Or?

Date of experience: August 1, 2017
Delaware
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Nothing but emotionally adolescent idiots taking advantage of web-anonymity to be exactly that. The behavior's little better than what you see on many Youtube comments pages. Spare yourself the personal attacks that most of them enjoy, and don't post there.

Date of experience: October 3, 2012
New Jersey
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I'd really give this annoying, useless site -5 stars! I asked a question and all the usual idiots came out of the woodwork -

Ohiogal (I agree with the other poster about this loser being an unloved cat lady, LOL),

Zigner (a full of himself jerk who gives terrible advice)

Blue Meanie (Who I affectionately called, "BM" as in Bowel Movement)

And on and on. Don't expect any advice from this band of jokers. They obviously have NO lives and NO brains to boot.

For those of you wronged - I got some good revenge on them by calling out their idiocy over and over, with some good insults in the mix.

Date of experience: November 17, 2015
Ohio
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I asked a few questions and was answered rudely. I was told I could have found my answer by using my favorite search engine instead of asking their advice. Very god advice for others. Don't use their site, google what you want to know first!

Date of experience: February 1, 2011
Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I posted a question on the website seeking some advise and what I got was far from that. The response I got for my question was far from insight full and rude. What I have read in some of the other reviews about the members being insensitive and giving little to no legal insight is true. Nothing but a bunch of cyber bullies that will go to any length to make you feel sorry you even tried to get help from the site. The person who said you were better off going to google first is correct, and I was actually advised by some of the senior members that I could've found my answer by just using my favorite search engine to research it. So, why have a place that offers free advise, but their senior members will jump at the chance to tell you that you didn't need them in the first place. It is a waste of time.

Date of experience: January 17, 2013
New Jersey
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Posting advise
November 10, 2012

Posting advise-
Posters should proceed with caution and research the advise on the site before posting.

Look at the senior members posting history. The advise on this site is free but is not always from a professional person. It is hard to tell who you are taking advise from.

The advise from the senior members is not delivered with any degree of sensitivity, empathy or compassion. You will rarely find an advocate here although sometimes the information will be useful and insightful.

In some cases you will find the advise un-constructive - i. E unnecessarily negative in nature. Some senior members will quickly digress into a personal attack on the original poster.

Not a source for sound, rational, polite advise.

Date of experience: November 10, 2012
Florida
43 reviews
212 helpful votes
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First of all I'd like to say that if I could've given less than one star, I would've. I was desperate and hoping I could find some outside insight to a very difficult situation. Who is going to look for advice to something simple? So I carefully describe what happened and it's like the dumbest, most judgemental people you could imagine come out of the wood work. This site really made me so angry I questioned any hope I had left in humanity. If you go here, I recommend doing it for trolling purposes, since that is all they will do to you, and if you call them out on it, they call you rude. This was the post I made, and while everyone may have their own judgements on the post itself, there is no doubt that the responses were anything but 'advice.'

http://forum.freeadvice.com/business-contracts-franchises-85/medical-subject-wrongfully-banned-misrepresentation-hostile-employee-*******.html

Date of experience: July 3, 2014
Virginia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Someone posted the forum question "does unemployment show up on a background check?"

I posted the following link to the Maryland Unemployment Website page.
https://www.dllr.state.md.us/AppealsOnlineSearch/web/content/Home.aspx
This link shows that if a background searcher can access someone's unemployment records and all they need is the person's social security number.

The next day I was informed that I was banned from freeadvice.com for "unspecified reasons" and the date the ban will be lifted is "never".

Date of experience: February 23, 2014

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