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I checked one of [your samples](https://ankuj3.wixsite.com/website-5/q-founder-us),

> Q. We are 2 co-founders and directors of a company. There is a valuation of 8M and we finished the seed round. However we cannot agree on how to move forward. We are considering dissolving the company. My co-founder has told me that if I decide to dissolve , he will agree , then re-incorporate without me. Is this legal? If yes, How do I prevent this from happening?

, and it looks like this question was just posted to reddit [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/ecaxx2/disso...), with [this response](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/ecaxx2/disso...) then given back as the answer.

So is the idea to ask questions for people on other Q&A sites like reddit or StackExchange?

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Who wants to pay them $4.20 to ask them "Is it legal to copy and paste content from sites like Reddit and Stackoverflow without attribution?"?

Thanks for taking the time to go through the questions. I posted that question myself, since it came to me from a third degree contact in the US on my legal website as you will see here: http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving

Since our legal services broadly cover EU/India at the moment (Uk is WIP) and I'm an engineer, I wanted to help the person out thus went hunting for an answer which was on the house. Whilst scraping this site together, I pulled together some of the answers that we provided to reflect the spectrum of answers as well as our willingness to help, even at the cost of man hunting for answers myself which are on the house. Hope it helps.

If it were my intention to scrape, I would have just picked the most upvoted answers on SO, instead I picked one with 2 upvotes since it was one I provided.

Attribution has now been added.

I don't see any attribution. Also your terms and conditions / privacy page is in French and talks about the wrong site

Sorry for that, the pages have been corrected. We've redirected the 'recent questions' to our legal website where we've been answering questions for a few weeks now:

http://helplicit.com/questionDashboard

If the person who's asking the question is unable to google it himself or ask on reddit/so, what's wrong about paying other people to do it for him?

Precisely, one of our motivations stems from this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20859332

Thanks for taking the time to go through the questions. I posted that question myself, since it came to me from a third degree contact in the US on my legal website as you will see here:

http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving

I think your entire setup is extremely risky, and should be reconsidered.

Not sure why you would say that, given that we've been answering legal questions for weeks now under the YC SUS program and have been surfing 5 star ratings on our Facebook page:

http://helplicit.com/

The reason we're going beyond is because we've been getting questions from other domains as well, and are just following what our existing customers are asking us for.

> > Q. We are 2 co-founders and directors of a company. There is a valuation of 8M and we finished the seed round. However we cannot agree on how to move forward. We are considering dissolving the company. My co-founder has told me that if I decide to dissolve , he will agree , then re-incorporate without me. Is this legal? If yes, How do I prevent this from happening?

Maybe a little O/T but if you have a company supposedly valued at 8M and you need to pay $4 for 'legal help' from a Wix sham site, then you probably deserve to lose it all!

As previously mentioned, the question was originally posted on a legal website that we've been running for a few weeks now:

http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving

And the third sample is taken directly from StackOverflow...

The SO source in question is one that I have answered, and not copied from any random source off the internet.

That doesn't give you the right to copy and paste the question without following the licensing at SO, https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24611/is-it-legal-t... .

You are missing the attribution part from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

And you intend to be taken seriously as a site that will answer legal questions?

Point noted. I will change the question for one that we answered on our website, there are numerous examples:

http://helplicit.com/

Again the idea was and is to demonstrate diversity. Appreciate you pointing that out though.

So what is your plan for the 99.99999% of domains where you aren't knowledgeable?

I have a piece of paper that tells me I'm an expert in some domains, and there are more than enough straightforward questions in my field I can't answer in 42 minutes, and certainly not for $4.20, even if I was just paid minimum wage.

Not sure I quite got the piece of paper reference, but as the site suggests "If it can be done in 42, it will be done in 42"

Re your question about domains: sure we cannot cover everything at the moment. Other domains would work into our business model which will unfold over time. For the moment we'll stick to where we can bring most value :)

Well, what I was getting at is that even though I'm an "expert" I couldn't provide what you claim to be able to do.

And my field of expertise is a tiny subset of "IT". The other two fields you take questions on are "Legal" and "Finance".

Do you really think you can any non-trivial answer in those extremely broad fields?

Appreciate the point you make, but we're not claiming this to be the one stop shop for everything. Anything that we cannot do in 42 will either be politely refused or handed to someone who can. There are other platforms to hire talent for more elaborate jobs, we're not claiming to be one. Short contextual queries is where we'd be best suited to help :)

Why don’t you look it up?

Weird! It's given as [third in their "Recent questions"](https://ankuj3.wixsite.com/website-5/q-tech), but StackOverflow appears to list both that [question and answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48373718/) as being from 2018.

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