This question Using brand logos for polls on my website?

has generated several comments concerning the appropriateness of the question for this site.

I went ahead and answered the question, but perhaps meta is a better place to discuss the best way to handle the question.

While I felt the question was extremely naive, and something which virtually any experienced website operator in the US would already know, none the less I took it to be a sincere question. If I had to guess, it is perhaps from a non-native English speaker in a foreign country. Further since he has a reputation of one, presumably this is his first question.

Clearly he could have done a much better job of asking the question, particularly by breaking it down into multiple questions, each of which involved a single topic calling for a simple answer. He really had 3 different questions rolled into 1 which is not good.

What is the best way to handle a question like this?

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IMO it is off-topic. – Ross Feb 20 '12 at 17:46

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The best way to handle such questions is to reply in a brief comment suggesting the OP to seek professional help locally because assuming location & experience of the asker is the road to misinformation.

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I did not see anything local in nature about the question, he asked about content on a website and websites are seen everywhere. – JonnyBoats Feb 20 '12 at 22:30
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@JonnyBoats: Websites might be seen everywhere but, in case of a lawsuit, the governing laws are the ones of the jurisdiction where the violator resides. Hence, they need local legal advice. – dnbrv Feb 20 '12 at 22:47

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