Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

Sure. What a joke.

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s about the same as DCUM except people actually have a courage to publish comments under their real names.

Same topics.

Actually, there is a woman in our Bethesda neighborhood who periodically changes her nom de plume so she can post screeds about other people’s behavior and fabricated family crises. Of course everyone knows it’s her.

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

+1

I was on a moderated forum the other day and in culture shock because people are so much nicer than here.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

More educated, yes.

Smarter? Absolutely not.

Without a doubt, some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered in life have been people here with Ivy degrees.

It's those honorary ivies that ruin it on this board.

It's not even useful for what it should be useful for. When I moved from one part of NoVA to another and considered getting someone in to clean once a week, I posted asking for recommendations. I didn't get a single rec from someone who actually has someone who does this, but got about 75 DMs from people wanting to do it. Virtually all of them with no references, and some of them likely scammers wanting payment in advance.

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

Lady on our street posts outrageous nonsense on Nextdoor, gets pilloried in the responses, then pulls her post down a day later. And she keeps doing it.

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

Best joke I have heard all day!

75% of my NextDoor is filled with annoying dog and cat photos. (Love animals but still…)

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that the IQ on Nextdoor is miles below the one on DCUM. For all its meanness, DCUM is special because its users are on average smarter and more educated than the general pop.

More educated, yes.

Smarter? Absolutely not.

Without a doubt, some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered in life have been people here with Ivy degrees.

As the saying goes, "Most of the highly 'educated' are actually just highly indoctrinated."

The ones I hate are when people take a picture of someone and make claims that the person did something terrible. It's their word against the person being filmed. Then everyone jumps all over the subject in the photo and become enraged lunatics, taking everything the OP says at face value.

What is Nextdoor even used for?

It’s old people over there. Neighborhood watch types. There is a different type of crazy over here.

Anonymous wrote:What topics do people generally post about on Nextdoor?

Lots of lost dogs
Asking for a recommendation for a home repair or improvement and getting contractors replying
What’s that siren for
Anywhere hear a helicopter
What’s this bug
Cars broken into

That encompasses mine.

I think it’s about the same as DCUM except people actually have a courage to publish comments under their real names.

Same topics.