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WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by mcv »

int_19h wrote: post #111
zionic wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is because Nextdoor is “moderated” by your local neighborhood gestapo. Nextdoor, as an institution, actively seeks out people who pathologically engage with their platform and then gives them power over people geographically local to them. This results in moderation-cliques that decide what can and cannot be posted in their local neighborhoods. It somehow manages to be worse than this site when it comes to suppr…

I don't know how Nextdoor "seeks out people" to moderate, but what I can tell you is that my previous community lead was a guy who didn't post at all for like 2 years. My new community lead is me, somehow, even though I didn't post for almost as long. 99% of my posts even now are basically, "hey, can you guys please read the rules before making yet another post about a suspicious black dude who's obviously up to no g…

"Somehow"? How are these community leads assigned?

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by zkldi »

te_chris wrote: post #128
Lammy wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nextdoor already has one, and they're trying to take it away. Once a day isn’t “engaging” enough when Nextdoor’s biggest competitor is built around real-time notifications of fear-porn-near-you: https://citizen.com/

Jesus. That is some proper scifi dystopian stuff. Any employees on here? How do you live with yourselves?

It even uses 'for the greater good' as the tagline. I guess they haven't seen Hot Fuzz[1]?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm--inJtnc4

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

lwansbrough wrote: post #64
dylan604 wrote: post #56

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actually, they posted old.reddit it's like 2 totally different things

It's the people not the layout.

Not just people, a lot of the fault is on mods.

Talk about Epsteins "suicide" on /r/conspiracy, and get autobanned from a bunch of subreddits, you've never even heard of before.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by simonswords82 »

Nextdoor wins my prize for the scummiest human manipulation to increase user signups I've witnessed.

I live in the UK in a cul-de-sac with about 25 houses in the street. We've lived here about 4 years and have a dog so we have bumped in to all the neighbours and know all of them by name at least.

I get a note through my door from NextDoor claiming to be from a neighbour in my street with a name that we did not recognise. Apparently this neighbour had signed up for NextDoor to keep our street safe and exchange important information yada yada yada...

Needless to say it's total horse shit - none of us are using their scummy platform and have absolutely no desire to.

So they're preying on people's fears, and hoping that some kind of FOMO plus the fear of being stabbed in your sleep if you don't know what's going on in your street will get people on to their platform.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by anon2020dot00 »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #133
lwansbrough wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the people not the layout.

Not just people, a lot of the fault is on mods. Talk about Epsteins "suicide" on /r/conspiracy, and get autobanned from a bunch of subreddits, you've never even heard of before.

Interesting so how deep does the conspiracy go? Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by langsoul-com »

maxehmookau wrote: post #125
toofy wrote: post #63

This 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…

I agree. Local facebook and whatsapp groups are the worst for this sort of thing. I solved it by becoming the benevolent dictator of a handful of my local online groups and swiftly delete messages like this. It's not perfect, but it'll do.

Insanely high costs to you though, constant moderation just to keep things sane.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by ls15 »

kube-system wrote: post #107
ultrarunner wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

She's probably only missing 125 clicks...

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by throwaway71271 »

Freak_NL wrote: post #109
tmaly wrote: post #21

I 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.”

Oh I laugh.. but this is so true, it hurts.

I can make an argument that only good things will happen if we literally shut down the internet from tomorrow.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Post by Angostura »

NonNefarious wrote: post #121
totetsu wrote: post #20

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iOS only lets you turn off bluetooth for a day at a time.

Not if you go into the actual settings. The problem is that Apple is too stupid to respect the setting you make there. If you turn off Bluetooth in your system settings, they should treat the control panel's Bluetooth switch as a true on/off. But no; it's always temporary. Sometimes Apple can't figure out how to solve simple UI problems. When they even bother to try, their "solution" is an overly complicated, unrelia…

Apple is smart enough to recognise that people want to turn off things for different reasons, and give you different options - to permanently turn off the transceiver hardware, or to disable various services.
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