"Nextdoor" neighborhood site

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in the SOuth and Nextdoor is awesome for finding out which of your neighbors are racist. Posts include things like "I saw a black man walking through our neighborhood the other night. Surely he doesn't live here . . .. "

In case they're too lazy to fly a Confederate Flag, we have Nextdoor so we can still identify them.

Signed, your local "immigrant"

People are just as racist elsewhere. They’re just savvy enough to not mention the black part unless pressed.

[Anonymous]

I dropped NextDoor. I found out way more about our neighbors than I ever wanted to know...namely, that most of them are insane.

The clincher for me was some woman in a neighboring area who took to NextDoor to complain that other people weren't smiling at her or giving a greeting when they passed while walking their dogs. So I get it because I always greet people when I walk the dogs but that's the way I am, and I too have noticed that I usually am the person giving the smile and greeting first. However, I also understand if others are using that time for reflection or to zone or to decompress and they don't want to smile at me or greet me. I don't find it offensive and I don't feel affronted.

Anyway, this woman went onto NextDoor with a litany of complaints about these other people and really made a big deal about how offended she was. In response, a bunch of people jumped in to express their umbrage at how rude others are. Somewhere in the midst of this, two people posted that perhaps the other people (the non-smilers, non-greeters) should be given the benefit of the doubt, and that perhaps the poster could just let them be. Let me tell you, those two people were completely blasted out of the water by the responses. The vitriol against the two was completely uncalled for.

Anyway no more NextDoor for me. Good riddance to bad rubbish as my grandma used to say.

[Anonymous]

I love it. We've hired people for odd jobs via Nextdoor (who have done a good job). I also like the classifieds for buying a selling - it's a bit less hectic than facebook marketplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dropped NextDoor. I found out way more about our neighbors than I ever wanted to know...namely, that most of them are insane.

The clincher for me was some woman in a neighboring area who took to NextDoor to complain that other people weren't smiling at her or giving a greeting when they passed while walking their dogs. So I get it because I always greet people when I walk the dogs but that's the way I am, and I too have noticed that I usually am the person giving the smile and greeting first. However, I also understand if others are using that time for reflection or to zone or to decompress and they don't want to smile at me or greet me. I don't find it offensive and I don't feel affronted.

Anyway, this woman went onto NextDoor with a litany of complaints about these other people and really made a big deal about how offended she was. In response, a bunch of people jumped in to express their umbrage at how rude others are. Somewhere in the midst of this, two people posted that perhaps the other people (the non-smilers, non-greeters) should be given the benefit of the doubt, and that perhaps the poster could just let them be. Let me tell you, those two people were completely blasted out of the water by the responses. The vitriol against the two was completely uncalled for.

Anyway no more NextDoor for me. Good riddance to bad rubbish as my grandma used to say.

We have a lady in our neighborhood who thinks appearing to fight local injustice will win her attention. Today it’s a store closing and who knows what’s next. It’s all a performance. Welcome to Nextdoor.

[Anonymous]

I found my dog groomer on there. She's better than any other groomer I have had, and charges less.

I also got a recommendation when I had a deep clean done on my house and they did a good job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, all the far-right conspiracy theory conservatives in my neighborhood use it to trash liberals, and spread fake news. It sucks.

Hmm. We have the reverse in our neighborhood. Apparently we aren’t supposed to disapprove of pumpkin smashers.

We were advised not to participate in Halloween at all, it invites in the Devil

(yes, this was a NextDoor thread in my neighborhood this week)

well, better safe than sorry, lol.

[Anonymous]

I would like to know how Nextdoor reviewers are selected. A prolific local troublemaker on Nextdoor lives in our neighborhood. This person routinely agitates, publicly shames even children, manufactures situations, and frankly lies—all to get the attention that evades them through normal human interaction. Yet somehow is now a reviewer. Now the person can post whatever they feel like with impunity. Absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like to know how Nextdoor reviewers are selected. A prolific local troublemaker on Nextdoor lives in our neighborhood. This person routinely agitates, publicly shames even children, manufactures situations, and frankly lies—all to get the attention that evades them through normal human interaction. Yet somehow is now a reviewer. Now the person can post whatever they feel like with impunity. Absurd.

+1 The people on Nextdoor the most tend to be the most toxic. Then they get rewarded as reviewers or "convo starters."

[Anonymous]

Nextdoor has its pluses, but, like all social media, it's got its share of crazies, who typically want to discuss:

1) Why things were so much better when they were growing up and kids these days.

2) How they can't believe they're closing/tearing down some old eyesore that no one in the community visited enough to keep in business.

3) Lost/found pet notifications (probably the most useful part of Nextdoor).

4) Whose trash is and is not being picked up by Republic or American, how their customer service sucks, etc. (My favorite part of these is that some free market person always weighs in about how glad they are to have choice and not have to pay taxes for the county to pick up their garbage after a dozen posts about the private services not picking up on schedule/at all - I have municipal trash service, and in decades, I can count on one hand the number of times my trash pickup was delayed, not even missed, just delayed, usually by bad weather.)

5) Self-important lectures about how because they do X (don't use a leaf blower, clean their own house, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, only buy local, etc.) that everyone else should do it, too.

[Anonymous]

All it is is reports of “gunshots” and lost dogs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All it is is reports of “gunshots” and lost dogs

And cars driving slowly through the neighborhood and bees nests and bug bites and complaints about weed trimmers and…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All it is is reports of “gunshots” and lost dogs

And cars driving slowly through the neighborhood and bees nests and bug bites and complaints about weed trimmers and…

"How deadly poisonous is this snake?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All it is is reports of “gunshots” and lost dogs

And cars driving slowly through the neighborhood and bees nests and bug bites and complaints about weed trimmers and…

"How deadly poisonous is this snake?"

" The black bear is roaming our neighborhood again".....

[Anonymous]

Next door is fabulous for finding lost dogs.

You can get local info quickly, which is useful with the. Collapse of local news reporting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like to know how Nextdoor reviewers are selected. A prolific local troublemaker on Nextdoor lives in our neighborhood. This person routinely agitates, publicly shames even children, manufactures situations, and frankly lies—all to get the attention that evades them through normal human interaction. Yet somehow is now a reviewer. Now the person can post whatever they feel like with impunity. Absurd.

+1 The people on Nextdoor the most tend to be the most toxic. Then they get rewarded as reviewers or "convo starters."

+1

There are people in my neighborhood like this, before Next Door, they were more discreet. Now we can see who is nuts, some more public than others (still sneaky, though).