"Nextdoor" neighborhood site

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ours is toxic.

It has some useful information, but our local FB sites are much better for information on what's going on, where the sirens were going, recommendations, etc. Plus they're entertaining and engaging. Because people are identified, they tend to be kind.

Our local Nextdoor has some really nasty people out there using fake identities. I've witnessed someone asking an innocent question, and one of these anonymous folks jumped on that individual and started a war against that individual. Then you have an avalanche of misplaced angry comments against the hapless individual who asked an innocent question. They tear that person to shreds. It can be hundreds of mean comments.

I don't like that. I thought our site was boring and basically useless, and the above incident convinced me it was not for me.

Sounds like another website we all use.

No.

What I'm talking about is very different. Another poster besides myself also pointed out this phenomenon. It's like an online lynch mob mentality that gets out of control. It's vicious, and it's mindless. I think it's a fascinating insight into human nature. There is no moderator, at least in our locality.

I don’t know about moderators but they do have reviewers who field reports of inappropriate posts. Except the reviewers, however they are chosen, are some of the biggest offenders. We have one lady who uses ND to rage against anyone and everyone she decides offends her or will get her attention. She also fabricates half the things she posts. And yet she is a reviewer. The whole thing is toxic.

It’s a platform for misfits and social losers, to be blunt. People who can’t get social traction no matter how hard they try use Nextdoor to rile things up through gaslighting, accusation, total lies, and buffoonery. We have one in our neighborhood who is infamous. When you are a topic at neighborhood gatherings, you might want to rethink things.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how to limit my feed and the emails they send to just my immediate neighborhood? So tired of getting “OMG what was that noise?” Crap from a half an hour away. I adjusted my settings but I’m still getting clickbait emails from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how to limit my feed and the emails they send to just my immediate neighborhood? So tired of getting “OMG what was that noise?” Crap from a half an hour away. I adjusted my settings but I’m still getting clickbait emails from them.

I don’t think those are annoying and unimportant messages! What if it was a gunshot or something like that?!?!

[Anonymous]

I use it for contractor recommendations and once when we found a lost dog who we were able to reunite with their owner. A lot of people on there are busy body complainers but unless I need something I’m not checking the site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how to limit my feed and the emails they send to just my immediate neighborhood? So tired of getting “OMG what was that noise?” Crap from a half an hour away. I adjusted my settings but I’m still getting clickbait emails from them.

I don’t think those are annoying and unimportant messages! What if it was a gunshot or something like that?!?!

Or a helicopter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use it for contractor recommendations and once when we found a lost dog who we were able to reunite with their owner. A lot of people on there are busy body complainers but unless I need something I’m not checking the site.

it’s constantly mentioning lost dogs! Very surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use it for contractor recommendations and once when we found a lost dog who we were able to reunite with their owner. A lot of people on there are busy body complainers but unless I need something I’m not checking the site.

it’s constantly mentioning lost dogs! Very surprising.

See the site is effective for these reasons!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how to limit my feed and the emails they send to just my immediate neighborhood? So tired of getting “OMG what was that noise?” Crap from a half an hour away. I adjusted my settings but I’m still getting clickbait emails from them.

I don’t think those are annoying and unimportant messages! What if it was a gunshot or something like that?!?!

Or a helicopter?

Or the little man in your head telling you things?

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of annoying people but you can block them.

[Anonymous]

I never joined the one where I live but reading a few recently it looks like gossip on steroids and some people think it's a private journal site. Don't know how it works or who moderates the posts.
That said, I see a lot of single mothers asking for food and clothing for their kids. Good people helping them out.
Gives me good feelings of not everyone is out to scam others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never joined the one where I live but reading a few recently it looks like gossip on steroids and some people think it's a private journal site. Don't know how it works or who moderates the posts.
That said, I see a lot of single mothers asking for food and clothing for their kids. Good people helping them out.
Gives me good feelings of not everyone is out to scam others.

We just get a lot of middle-aged troublemakers who live to gaslight, accuse, shame, and fabricate all in the interest of trying to get people to pay attention to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never joined the one where I live but reading a few recently it looks like gossip on steroids and some people think it's a private journal site. Don't know how it works or who moderates the posts.
That said, I see a lot of single mothers asking for food and clothing for their kids. Good people helping them out.
Gives me good feelings of not everyone is out to scam others.

We just get a lot of middle-aged troublemakers who live to gaslight, accuse, shame, and fabricate all in the interest of trying to get people to pay attention to them.

+1

[Anonymous]

Be careful with Next door they never let you cancel your account

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be careful with Next door they never let you cancel your account

Oh goodie. Locked in with my loony tunes neighbor for eternity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never joined the one where I live but reading a few recently it looks like gossip on steroids and some people think it's a private journal site. Don't know how it works or who moderates the posts.
That said, I see a lot of single mothers asking for food and clothing for their kids. Good people helping them out.
Gives me good feelings of not everyone is out to scam others.

We just get a lot of middle-aged troublemakers who live to gaslight, accuse, shame, and fabricate all in the interest of trying to get people to pay attention to them.

Wow. You are just rude. Whatever happened to kindness and being neighborly!