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Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by segmondy »

fingerlocks wrote: post #125
drdeadringer wrote: post #62

I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate. However, one of my True Jokes is "NextDoor: Hate Your Neighbors" just as "Facebook: Hate Your Family & Friends" and "Twitter: Hate Your Heroes". NextDoor sounds good, but it generally proves not. Everything from "suspicious teenagers on the sidewalk again" [meaning: local kids walking to their local home from the local school…

Odd, my NextDoor feed is really quite pleasant. Mostly people just selling odds and ends or looking for a handyman. I wonder how rare that is?

likewise. Folks selling stuff, looking for odd jobs or recommendations, looking for lost cat or dog or announcing one that they found. Once in a while, "saw something suspicious or heard a loud sound" anyone know about it?

Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by xboxnolifes »

randompwd wrote: post #127
lambdasquirrel wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The police blotter for the richest towns in the Bay Area are pretty funny too. It's amazing that the police get called when someone's walking their dog without a leash.

who else would be called? That's why the justice system exists - to solve matters without resorting to feudalistic violence. i dont live in US and it's only ignorant people who walk their dog off leash in residential neighbourhoods.

You call nobody. Or maybe your gossip buddy.

Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by inanutshellus »

fingerlocks wrote: post #125
drdeadringer wrote: post #62

I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate. However, one of my True Jokes is "NextDoor: Hate Your Neighbors" just as "Facebook: Hate Your Family & Friends" and "Twitter: Hate Your Heroes". NextDoor sounds good, but it generally proves not. Everything from "suspicious teenagers on the sidewalk again" [meaning: local kids walking to their local home from the local school…

Odd, my NextDoor feed is really quite pleasant. Mostly people just selling odds and ends or looking for a handyman. I wonder how rare that is?

My ND was just fine until fairly recently. Lost cat. Someone egged my car. Yard sale this weekend.

Then some neighbors started talking about national events, and had their posts deleted.

This spawned a virus of censorship/free-speech/moderator-oppression posts that are self-fulfilling. Taking them down (discussing moderation in the "general" thread is not allowed) spawns more outrage. Leaving them up lets more people fester, foment and hivemind on what victims they are.

It's extra messy because there's a local development that has the ND community up in arms and they're using toxic emotion-based posts to get attention. Deleting them for being unneighborly ("lawmaker didn't acquiesce when I emailed him, so he's corrupt and ought to be locked in jail!") is mixed in with the above "oppression" discussions.

In the end, giving /everyone/ a voice back to /everyone/ creates a cacophony of outrage that has made me appreciate the curated content that we (used to?) get from newspapers.

Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by dreamcompiler »

paul_f wrote: post #128
fingerlocks wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odd, my NextDoor feed is really quite pleasant. Mostly people just selling odds and ends or looking for a handyman. I wonder how rare that is?

Here in Florida it is mostly "what kind of snake is this?"

Ha! In most of the United States, if you memorize the few venomous snakes (the pit vipers and the corals), you know every snake that's not one of those is harmless.

But in Florida there's an additional rule: If it's big enough to eat your German Shepherd, it's a Burmese Python and you need to kill the unfortunate creature because it's invasive.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/09/18-9-foot-burmese-python-caugh...

Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by spoonjim »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #132
randompwd wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

who else would be called? That's why the justice system exists - to solve matters without resorting to feudalistic violence. i dont live in US and it's only ignorant people who walk their dog off leash in residential neighbourhoods.

You call nobody. Or maybe your gossip buddy.

Then what enforces the rules? Someone has to enforce the rules. What is the purpose of a dog leash ordinance if there is no enforcement mechanism?

Damn right I call the police on quality of life infractions, the difference is I don’t try to settle it amicably first, since that’s a one-way ticket to becoming an infamous viral sensation like “Dog Leash Dan” or “Leashy Larry.”

Re: Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

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Post by adolph »

valentinemsmith wrote: post #9

Were small-town papers just as toxic, or is it just my community here in SF? In the last month, on NextDoor, they doxxed and banded together to get the mentally-challenged skateboarder who’s been my neighborhood for years, and had him arrested because a user felt threatened by him standing around the neighborhood shouting obscenities during manic episodes. (He’s now in jail and this NextDoor thread is trying to make…

NextDoor seems to be an ineffective method of community pressure for incarceration.

The driver suspected of killing a pedestrian after causing an eight-car collision while intoxicated in S.F. on Thursday was facing charges in another DUI case. He was arrested at least seven times in the Bay Area since being released from prison in April.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Suspect-in-fatal-S...

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