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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 wonderbore »

colinsane wrote: post #51
sem000 wrote: post #14

NextDoor continues to spam you even after unsubscribing from everything. Some how every month I get a random new email, and some how another new email subscription is enabled in my account. Also, advertising on their platform brings almost $0 ROI. The only benefit was a decently ranked back link.

forward your spam to their help desk (usually help@ or contact@ ). other humans hate dealing with spammy email about as much as you so often the fastest way to solve it is by looping in an email. plus, i like to imagine i’m doing a tiny bit of good in the world by redirecting a bit of revenue from a shitty company to the probably less-shitty individual operating the help desk.

Unfortunately there's no such thing as free forwarding. help@ sees an email coming from your email account and it can be marked as spam. Not worth it. Just mark it as spam.

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

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Post by wonderbore »

trinovantes wrote: post #5

I would probably just try document.getElementsByClass('selector').forEach((el) => el.click()) in the console

Also works:

   $$('selector').forEach(el => el.click())
Every browser console has extra helpers: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_co...

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

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Post by zionic »

AlbertCory wrote: post #24

NextDoor: home of the dumbest people on the Internet. They must be proud of that. There are occasionally things I want to see on there: a new Costco going in where the OSH Hardware used to be, or whatnot. So I got the daily email digest. One email per day -- tolerable. Then it stopped coming. I wrote to Support, and their guy swore it was still being sent! I said "no, it's not. I looked in Spam and Trash." He swore a…

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

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Post by ultrarunner »

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…

My only interaction with Nextdoor these days is @bestofnextdoor on twitter. I highly recommend this arrangement. https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor

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

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Post by zionic »

AlbertCory wrote: post #24

NextDoor: home of the dumbest people on the Internet. They must be proud of that. There are occasionally things I want to see on there: a new Costco going in where the OSH Hardware used to be, or whatnot. So I got the daily email digest. One email per day -- tolerable. Then it stopped coming. I wrote to Support, and their guy swore it was still being sent! I said "no, it's not. I looked in Spam and Trash." He swore a…

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 suppression and censorship, and to be honest I’ve almost totally lost the desire to interact with either.

I’ve hit peak moderation fatigue, I’m tired and quite frankly offended anyone thinks they can tell me what I should (or want) to see. All their algorithms are corrupt, all the systems that rely on manual, human moderation are biased and useless. Curation is an iron grip around my throat and I want to cut it.

I’m to the point that I’d rather drink from the firehose of “misinformation” than thirst in the desert centralized of approval.

Edit: originally posted this in reply to a comment down-chain, but by the time I finished typing “you can’t reply to this anymore”. It’s getting meta at this point

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

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Post by RajT88 »

juliennakache wrote: post #2

Probably the darkest UX pattern I've seen in a while... It's not spam per say so I'm not sure if this can be reported to the FTC, but it sure is a dirty move. Whoever designed is either evil or had was forced by an evil organization who would do anything to make their stock go up after a rough SPAC introduction. Does anyone know if this can be reported to a public agency?

Next-door is filled with dark patterns.

Some, I actually admire. For example: Debates about national politics are against the TOS.

Makes sense, they don't want a locally focused forum turning into the usual partisan cesspool.

So when inevitably threads turn to national partisan politics, there seems to be some flag which is toggled. You might get notifications about replies to your posts, but click yields "This comment has been deleted". You have to use one of a few workarounds to catch up with the whole thread. Boom: Fewer shitposts by virtue of slowing down the whole discussion to a near-standstill.

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