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Why's that? Never used the app. Is it just a lot of negativity and you get negative vibes from them?

• RankingMember 2y ago
  It is exactly that. A lot of "saw a black guy walking down the street...should I call police?"
  • Kevguy 2y ago
    NextDoor used to be bad about that, but they are now much more careful to remove it quickly if anyone does post racist crap. Now it seems to be 50% paid ads, 30% lost/found pets, 10% unpaid ads, and 10% everything else. Worth checking to find the owner of a stray dog or cat, but not much else.
    • RankingMember 2y ago
      I deleted the app a few years ago because it was a drag. Glad (and honestly surprised) to hear you say they remove the racist stuff quickly, and not surprised it's mostly ads these days.
    • kortilla 2y ago
      The problem is people say the same thing without saying race. “Did anyone see this suspicious character?” with a picture from a doorbell cam of a black guy. It’s still obviously racist to everyone but it’s not reportable or treated as such.
• roflchoppa 2y ago
  I don't use it, but some family members do... From what they describe, it sounds like an app to complain/snitch on people.
  • JoshTriplett 2y ago
    It attracts the same kinds of people who love homeowners associations, yes.
• hombre_fatal 2y ago
  It exposes you to the mental illness of some people, like the kind of person who will make a thread asking if anybody knows this new runner they saw jog by their place because it's very suspicious and it's making them very angry that someone would jog down their street. Or bicker about street parking. Or people who post on social media in general, like to talk about politics or fake outrage over nothing or the weird boasting people like to do like post a news article about some family freezing to death in the Yukon and how disappointing it is that the husband didn't keep his SUV prepped for such an occasion like I do here in Houston—you know, I don't even leave my house without <LARP armor>. It can get in the way of a foundational part of the social fabric: being able to assume your neighbors are normal, nice people.
  • rufus_foreman 2y ago
    >> the kind of person who will make a thread asking if anybody knows this new runner they saw jog by their place That's what the urbanologist Jane Jacobs, in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" called "eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street". As she said, "The first thing to understand is that the public peace - the sidewalk and street peace - of cities is not kept primarily by the police, necessary as police are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves". To many people, of course, this is disgusting behavior.
    • Barrin92 2y ago
      >To many people, of course, this is disgusting behavior. Well in my experience when I lived in a neighborhood like this in practice this meant a lot of really bored soccer moms in the local facebook group posting pictures of every new van on the street because they were now convinced their kids were in mortal danger. The million ring doorbells probably didn't help either. I think P.K. Dick was much more accurate and prescient than Jacobs when it came to the paranoid character of local neighborhoods in particular in an age where that is amplified by technology
  • ryandrake 2y ago