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Anonymous wrote:I assume this is Chevy Chase DC, right? I'm on a Chevy Chase MD listserv and the moderator is not a nutjob at all.

Can you please explain how I can get on the CMMD list serv? I’m on the Chevy Chase DC one but I live on the Maryland side and would rather get more info on Md related stuff.

And yes the CCDC moderator has made me rewrite my posts too.

There's a couple of different listservs depending on your area-there's one for BCC, one for the town of Somerset and one for Chevy Chase West. For the latter two, an existing member has to verify that you live in the catchment zone.

I'm in CC West -- where do I find that list?

Anonymous wrote:My favorite is, usually around the New year, when all her plebes who are pro-cats and anti-development, heap on the praise with their endless posts about how great she is and gush how they couldn't function without her.

I really don't get why you would need a moderator to edit posts actively on a non-anonymous board of neighbors. My maryland chevy chase listserv has maybe one or two posts a year that the moderator scolds about- and reminds people of the rules of the forum (ex: this year it was people posting too aggressively to boost a local candidate).

My favorite is, usually around the New year, when all her plebes who are pro-cats and anti-development, heap on the praise with their endless posts about how great she is and gush how they couldn't function without her.

Anonymous wrote:The moderator of this listserve once substantively re-wrote a post I had submitted and posted it on the listserve without advising me she had re-written it or adding a preface that the post had been edited.

She's the worst, with her pathetic little fiefdom.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume this is Chevy Chase DC, right? I'm on a Chevy Chase MD listserv and the moderator is not a nutjob at all.

Can you please explain how I can get on the CMMD list serv? I’m on the Chevy Chase DC one but I live on the Maryland side and would rather get more info on Md related stuff.

And yes the CCDC moderator has made me rewrite my posts too.

There's a couple of different listservs depending on your area-there's one for BCC, one for the town of Somerset and one for Chevy Chase West. For the latter two, an existing member has to verify that you live in the catchment zone.

The moderator of this listserve once substantively re-wrote a post I had submitted and posted it on the listserve without advising me she had re-written it or adding a preface that the post had been edited.

Anonymous wrote:I assume this is Chevy Chase DC, right? I'm on a Chevy Chase MD listserv and the moderator is not a nutjob at all.

Can you please explain how I can get on the CMMD list serv? I’m on the Chevy Chase DC one but I live on the Maryland side and would rather get more info on Md related stuff.

And yes the CCDC moderator has made me rewrite my posts too.

My favorite rule of the CCListserve is you can't criticize the moderator on the CC Listserve. So I criticized the moderator on another listserve and was promptly removed anyhow!

The moderator also frequently allows her allies to break the listserve rules (moderator is stridently anti development and pro historic preservation) while holding up posts from anyone she disagrees with on minor technicalities.

I was able to sign up for the CCDC listserv when we moved to the neighborhood, but it took a ridiculous amount of effort.

The woman who runs the listserv is basically an elderly version of the cretin who runs Popville.

I'm in CCMD and use NextDoor as well as the BCC Community listserv (which is different from the BCC HS listserv.) Both serve whatever purpose I'd need.

I just moved into Chevy Chase and am surprised there isn’t a Facebook group. That’s where most of my neighbors in previous neighborhood posted...

Why not a Facebook group?

I assume this is Chevy Chase DC, right? I'm on a Chevy Chase MD listserv and the moderator is not a nutjob at all.

The Chevy Chase list serve moderator is an idiot. I hope she is reading this posting. If not, someone send her the link.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to know who's organized this one. there are plenty of loons in the neighborhood -- of varying ages.

Does it matter - supposedly the new one is unmoderated. And presumably whoever it is won't be editing everyone's posts and the publishing them without letting the list (or the poster) know that the content was edited.

OP here: Oh, I've received phone calls from the legacy list-serv moderator, asking me questions about my post. And giving me long lectures on how I should lecture the owner of a dog I once found... She seems well-meaning, but I found it enormously annoying, and counter-productive when things are time sensitive.

The moderator called me too once! Besides lighting into me about my post (which I wasted 3 days re-writing and never to her satisfaction so it went unpublished) she also criticized me for posting from work and asked what my employer would think - during a call she initiated to me during the work day!

Oh M.R., never change.

She called me a liar on the Tenley Park list serve when I was complaining that she wouldn't let me join after three requests. She did finally sign me up. I do think the Chevy Chase list serve has the best contractor reps - Cleveland Park is pretty good too.

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Anonymous wrote:The moderating is a little over the top (and I haven’t been able to get my husband signed up notwithstanding 3 requests) but I appreciate some moderating.
I am also a member of the Tenleytown list, which is terrible- full of spam, random political rants, huge extended quote excerpts. It’s almost unreadable.

well, so this is the alternative - no moderating.

I'm happy with Next door.

Even with its obvious Silicon Valley bro-culture douchiness, I tend to agree Nextdoor is good enough. For deeper stuff, I think you need to contact people directly, not assume that a social media app or listserv will do the trick.

Your Nextdoor is very different than mine. Mine is elderly folks and fearful gen xers, ranting about the homeless and accidentally responding to posters in a personal way but goes to the whole listserv, i.e., "oh hi Suzie, haven't seen you in a while, shall we get out for a walk soon?"

I wasn't describing the users, I was describing the less than savory parts of the app. Some of us got that Facebook was a problem (about a million times more than putative 'Russian trolls') years ago. Nextdoor is quite so bad, but I don't think they've users' best interests at heart, not even close.