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Nextdoor banned me because i called out my neighbors for spreading disinformation about made up neighborhood crime. Nextdoor is a disinformation platform.
by 50208 3y ago
Nextdoor banned me because i called out my neighbors for spreading disinformation about made up neighborhood crime. Nextdoor is a disinformation platform.
- wolverine876 3y agoWhat do you think is going on there? While I see mis/disinformation about crime in many places, and hear about it on Nextdoor, I'm not sure what the motive is? The Citizen app works (afaik) by drumming up fear of crime, and therefore emotionally addicting people. According to a Fast Company article (that everyone should read), Citizen has staff adding crime reports to feeds that are peaceful. But they specialize in crime and have a profit motive. Why would neighbors be drumming up fear of crime?
- yukkuri 3y agoBecause they're racist and "crime" is a dog whistle for "existing while not white". It's incredibly tiresome.
- wolverine876 3y agoI believe that happens, but have you looked at it and seen the mechanism in action? Is there something else going on too? I'm really intersested in what people's direct evidence is.
- ceejayoz 3y agoFor some, I suspect it's just the excitement of it. Watch the likes and the comments stream in. Same reason kids in middle school spread rumors.
- wolverine876 3y agoI don't find that unusual at all. Doesn't that explain most social media - it's engineered for that excitement. Doesn't that explain HN? It's not just middle schoolers. Our primate ancestors love to socialize; we've been doing it for seven million years. That's what social media sells. It's certainly not utilitarianism!
- yukkuri 3y agoI grew up in it. I participated in it, until I got out into the world enough that I realized how wrong I was. For this specific case, no of course I can't be sure, I don't know the specific neighbors.
- RetpolineDrama 3y ago>What do you think is going on there? It all goes back to who the mods are, in this case "nextdoor" did not ban him it was local mods. They get a little fiefdom and then ban dissent in their area, OP just pissed off one of the local "big fish". No moderation is highly preferable to me if the alternative is orwellian censorship
- wolverine876 3y ago> No moderation is highly preferable to me if the alternative is orwellian censorship No moderation, outside specific situations, is unusable.
- RetpolineDrama 3y agoWhat do you mean exactly? Moderation in the classical sense, where spam/off topic content is removed? or "Moderation": Consensus manipulation, speech/thought policing, censorship of opposing/controversial ideas, etc? Because in practice "Moderation" is what you get (and what they spend most of their time doing), but they sell you on the above by fear mongering about spam.
- wolverine876 3y agoIt's a balance, right? I want to hear from all sorts of people, and I want free expression. But I don't want to spend time with people who behave badly - people shouting, people saying offensive things, people being rude, etc. Humanity universally has manners and social norms for a reason, to enable us to interact. Public forums are vulnerable to people coming in and behaving badly; we need moderators to keep the place civil without suppressing free expression.