The west side Denver nextdoor is mostly people crying about fireworks or posting videos of porch pirates. I couldn't find the value in it so I stopped using their service.
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Specifically for the design. I haven't been on it in a year, so my memory is foggy, but the reason I left was the fact that it seems tailor made to amplify the most paranoid, antisocial perspectives at the expense of good faith and trust. The following progression of thought comes to mind: many police departments have a mandatory arrest policy for calls in response to alleged domestic violence. Despite the fact that…
I can’t comment specifically with certainty on the internals of their algorithm. What I can say though is I have lost most of the faith I had in moderation systems, their role should be to validate that XYZ is actually your neighbor. Maybe rate limit all posts by geo. Beyond that? Fuck off.
Yeah no. National politics have no place in a neighborhood updates app.
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We have one too but it's overrun by jerks. Lots of bickering and ganging up on people.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to have a neighborhood-based social network that's any different. Even before the internet, this is how HOAs and small town governments behaved.
You may be right, but... and maybe I'm being naive here... if HN can do it, why can't local social networks? The amount of people in the network is even smaller than HN. I suppose the problem is finding good moderators that keep to an ethical standard and that ethical standard is different everywhere. Well I think I answered my own question lol
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#105This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…
Like I say below: it's worth getting one email a day. No more than that. If they had an option for a weekly digest instead, I'd probably take that.
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#106This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…
Oof, I had to delete my Nextdoor account after witnessing that same kind paranoia (with a hint of racism). The last post I read that caused me to delete my account was about an elderly woman complaining about a brown guy taking pictures of his own car on a public street. (It seemed like he was putting it up for sale, after looking at the photo "evidence" and he obviously was the owner.) When I commented it was that i…
Yeah, but is it really Nextdoor that feeds this paranoia or is it just the true face of american suburb, that some, more secure feeling americans, like yourself weren't aware of?
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#107This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…
My only interaction with Nextdoor these days is @bestofnextdoor on twitter. I highly recommend this arrangement. https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor
Those are mild. In my nextdoor feed, there’s an elderly woman who angrily replies to every post telling them to stop emailing her. She apparently doesn’t know how to turn off notifications. People have tried to help but I guess she doesn’t read the replies either.
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Yeah, I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or walking my kid to school too close to someone’s driveway, and the unfathomably bad design and functionality of their mobile site has me convinced that they’d be incapable of intentionally implementing dark patterns.
>I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or ... And so what if you are? Not being there and put on blast affects you how? Being there and put on blast is different because? You can respond by using gasoline to put out the fire? Nextdoor is a great place to find out who you never want to associate in real life.
Information is power, it allows you to make decisions with greater expected value on average.
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#109I stayed clear of them when they started canvassing my neighborhood. It seems more like a place to gossip. If I want to connect with my neighbors, I just go knock on their door.
> If I want to connect with my neighbors, I just go knock on their door.
“Look out fellow Nextdoor-neighbors! There's this weirdo knocking on doors with some sort of chat up scheme. Stay safe! [blurry photo of you]”
“he came round here to. i peeped thru the blinds but he didnt spot me.”
“I think it was a she, but you can't tell with the hoodie can you? Seems shady to me. I'm calling the police if she comes here.”
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#110This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…
At least they did not shoot her.
And it's not NextDoor, it's only exposing a larger issue.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/7/18528014/fear-social-med...
>> The issue is compounded by the media, Ewoldsen says. >> “If you see more coverage of crime you think it’s more of an issue, even if real-world statistics say it isn’t,” Ewoldsen said. >> And all this is happening at a very contentious point in time, both politically and socially. >> “Some of this has to do with the general level of discord and lack of comfort societally right now,” Rutledge said. >> As Ewoldsen put it, “The president screaming about crime all the time — creating a fake crisis at the border and saying immigrants are stealing jobs, that Mexico and other countries are sending criminals — is reinforcing the idea that crime is going through the roof.”