Dollars,
You're still missing the point. There's a way to help people. But what's here is blatantly over the line. I'm sorry to say it, but that's the truth.
AFAIK, (and this isn't legal advice) the state bar only regulates lawyers. So unless you're licensed it probably won't care. Furthermore, very few such cases get prosecuted; there are much worse crimes out there obviously.
(The risk to this site's owner is another matter altogether, for lots of reasons I've explained in detail elsewhere.)
I regard this more as an ethical issue. Telling someone an experience you've had or general strategy or what questions to ask or where to find a particular resource are all one kind of thing; explaining a person's rights in a specific situation is quite another. Of course there's lots of grey area, but here there's really very little question: there's lots of legal advice in this forum, and again I'm sorry to see how much of it is simply incorrect and counter-productive.
Time permitting, next week I might prepare a substantive post to show something (like responding to a complaint) that people can do on their own, and perhaps serve as an example of how to help people in a forum like this without practicing law. Believe it or not, most lawyers do this all the time at cocktail parties, etc. We just want to do it responsibly.
Today, however, I've got an appellate brief to file.
Signed,
Just Another Dime-a-Dozen Lawyer