It's both funny and sad to read my local Nextdoor comments, for exactly those reasons. The comments around me fall into a few major categories: (1) Announcemen

It's both funny and sad to read my local Nextdoor comments, for exactly those reasons. The comments around me fall into a few major categories: (1) Announcements from the local police and local government about stuff they want to let people know about. This is actually useful and informative sometimes. (2) People who are expending titanic amounts of time and effort to save almost nonexistent sums of money, hoping they can buy stuff off their neighbors. People looking for stepladders or planters or shovels that they hope random neighbors have lying around unused in their garages so they can save like $5. These are clearly not people trying to be less wasteful, these are clearly people with a lot of money devoting hours on end to trying to save $5 instead of just going to Home Depot or whatever. (3) People who are looking for random people in the neighborhood to do their housekeeping for them or babysit their kids or cook for them for some reason. The common theme is, whatever service they're looking for, it's always something where it's completely insane to ask a bunch of random strangers who just happen to be registered in the same Nextdoor neighborhood as them, and again appears to be people with tremendous amounts of money trying to marginally cheap out by snagging some random stranger to do whatever they need doing. I can't imagine anyone seeing one of these and thinking, "heck yeah, I have no idea who these people are but I would absolutely stop whatever I'm doing at noon every day to go over to this person's house and cook a meal for their shut-in in-laws in exchange for $10 a week because these people want to save money by cheaping out on caring for their older relatives." (4) People who are very frightened by everything they see out the window of their wealthy, manicured neighborhood. This is the racist stuff. Most of it's either, "I saw some <ethnicity> youths walking down the street and it made me worried", or "A stranger of <ethnicity> rang my doorbell and I didn't answer and they went away and nothing's happened since but it made me worried." (5) Occasionally informative, useful stuff about yard sales, garage sales, funny stories, lost pets, accidents, crime, mysterious loud noises, etc. Like (1), it's not often relevant to me, but it's good to have that source of information.