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People are incredibly mean and nasty to each other on nextdoor in my neighborhood, and they literally live down the street from one another. You're completely
by NickGott 6y ago
People are incredibly mean and nasty to each other on nextdoor in my neighborhood, and they literally live down the street from one another.
You're completely right, it's not anonymity that causes people to act like this, it's the fact that we as humans can't perceive text on a screen as another human being that activates the empathy center in our brains. Coronavirus has made this 100X worse as people are losing their humanity being locked away from everyone else.
I've had some of my best social interaction recently on VRChat of all places as it gets the closest of anything I've found so far of making it feel like there's actually a human being in front of you.
- jeffbee 6y agoPeople on Nextdoor think their neighbors are all like them and wrongly assume it's a safe space for airing out their worst thoughts. Mine is completely full of naked racism, calls for murdering specific people, etc. There doesn't seem to be a way to fix it because the "leader", basically the moderator, of my Nextdoor is the worst of them.
- mckeed 6y agoIt looks like you can report them if they violate Nextdoor's Community Guidelines and potentially get them demoted. https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-remove-Lead-status https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-remove-Lead-statu...