Nextdoor

Ms. Handi did an outstanding job handing our round mirror. I highly recommend her for your mounting task.

My account was deactivated after I copied information with a link from the CDC website. It is extremely political.

Nextdoor is fraught with problems. We had one woman using it in her 80s who, due to eyesight, typed in all caps. Virtually no one on Nextdoor would accept her handicap and accused her of shouting. She didn't understand browser or display zoom to use lower case. Despite that she was active for awhile and contributed. Her contributions were worthwhile and insightful. Eventually she was stalked online by someone in the neighborhood who took the time, at 2 AM, to sequentially flag all of her posts. It was very upsetting and stressful for her. Nextdoor offered zero support in identifying the stalker and deactivating their account. All of this information was clearly in their log files. This was escalated all the way to the CEO who did nothing. The woman dropped off Nextdoor. About 6 months later, after all the damage was done, Nextdoor identified the perp who had already moved out of the neighborhood.

Nextdoor is also increasingly political, and following a national trend of social media, highly left-leaning. If you're a member of Antifa you'll fit right in. I've seen some very hostile posts by know-it-all bullies attacking simple benign suggestions or comments. I've also begun to see a pattern of progressive social justice warriors now using Nextdoor as a platform. Moderation is non-existent. The email notifications you will receive - bombarded with is more descriptive - will contain the rants, ravings and unwanted opinion of everyone unemployed, mentally-ill or home-bound and bored person in your neighborhood.

My advice to everyone is to consider Nextdoor just as toxic as Facebook, Twitter and most television. Very little has been accomplished in improving our neighborhood using Nextdoor. Get a dog instead.

I tried for years to help build this site into one that was usable by normal human beings. I used to think this site, with its incredible assets in groups and topics,
Would go beyond the bulletin-board quality of the Newsfeed. My reward for this has been to get banned for life--my offense was attempting to get them to fix a glitch that was chasing away Users left and right. It came at just about the perfect time--thanks to Mr. Musk's Twitter wars, I realize that most of their "members" and "viewers" are robots spying on your posts and doing their best to steal your information.
Confirmed this to my own satisfaction by posting to several of their "Groups" with any number of tidbits that should have provoked extensive chatter. Nada. There seem to be no people on any group except for a very few regular contributors.
ND gives you Post Insights which suggest you have tens of thousands of people seeing your post to their Newsfeed. What you have is a few people checking in again and again plus the aforementioned robots looking at it THOUSANDS of times.
My regret with this site, which now seems to have extremely sparsely utilized neighborhoods, is that when it inevitably goes dark there is no competition save in a few select neighborhoods--naturally those are the very ones that least need such a service for their disenfranchised and their shut-ins.
Experience in two different 'hoods tell me otherwise. Also, from the comments
In ND reviews, neighborhoods become defacto right or left, and exorcise any in-betweeners.
So it's not really a fit place to discuss anything BUT your lost or found pet. "Moderators" in
Some cases are overly zealous, in others, absent in the face of any controversy.
As for use in emergencies, if there's a 3.0 earthquake(I write from California), you get twenty posts that ask, Did You Feel That? Of course these quakes are almost always too small to be WORTH talking about anywhere.
In short, ND offers nothing to see here, At least nothing of value.
(This is a replacement of earlier, more positive reviews which I now regret.)

Hi Helena,

Thanks for contacting us about this issue.

We temporarily disabled your Nextdoor account after we received a complaint regarding your content and found that you had violated our Community Guidelines on Be respectful to your neighbors and Discuss important topics in the right way.

Here are examples of the content that was brought to our attention:

Helena Hebert 04/28/2022
Craig lol. HOAs are made up of Karen's that can't mind their business...

Helena Hebert 04/28/2022
John lol. Says the guy who never posts proof I'm wrong. Burden of proof is on you, bub.

Helena Hebert 04/27/2022
John lol. Let's look at your guy Trump. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/?amp=true

They have commented on Trump's alleged paranoid, sadistic, and psychopathic tendencies; diagnosed him with narcissistic personality disorder; and suggested he might suffer from neurological conditions like dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Naturally, many have questioned his fitness to serve as the President of the United States. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/*******/diagnosing-trump-mental-illness?amp

But you know Trump is sooo much better right?

It's important to keep in mind that Nextdoor websites are designed to bring neighbors together in a meaningful and helpful way. Our intentions are to help neighbors build stronger, more close-knit communities. Always being respectful and civil is essential to the health of a Nextdoor neighborhood.

Your account will remain disabled until at least 5/30/22. At that time, you can log into your account and access your Nextdoor neighborhood after checking a box stating that you agree to following the Guidelines.

Please let me know if I can help with anything else.

Best,

Jeffrey
Nextdoor

Nothing was wrong with what I said...

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I was a member of my local NextDoor for a number of years both without issue AND with an appreciation of how it allowed neighbors who are rarely SEEN to actually get to know each other and communicate regarding relevant issues. I actually preferred over Facebook for local events and sale items. However, last November, just prior to the state election, I posted (just to my subdivision only) that my mailbox had been tampered with and posted a picture of what had been put in it. Within eight hours, the thread took on a life of its own with neighbors sniping at each other regarding their political beliefs on MY post without any other input from me! When I saw all this, I immediately asked people to STOP, reiterated that it was a crime to tamper with a federally owned mailbox and was going to close the discussion (and probably just delete the whole thing). Minutes later I started getting personal attacks in my Inbox for closing the comments section! I then took pictures of the entire thread and the comments I received for before deleting the Original post. The next day, I went to get on Next Door and found I could not open the app at all. A few days later, I received a response from NextDoor corporate stating that my account had been suspended for violating their Community Standards regarding Political Discussions! I then sent them the snaps of the thread and only got a response asking if I was "willing to promise not to ever violate Community Standards again" and if I did, I would have my account reactivated. Needless to say, I was OVER being a member of NextDoor and the Orwellian/Gestapo-like feel that now goes with it. Such a sad way to run a website that had so many positive possibilities.

Nextdoor is a place where neighbors come together - to be jerks to each other and to report "suspicious" people. If anybody has a disagreement, they get to be harassed by people who know their name and address. Also, there are definitely the racists mentioned by others who exist in every Nextdoor neighborhood and who just talk about suspicious people who turn out to be people of different ethnicities that they don't like seeing walk through "their neighborhood". It is vile.

The site admins are ill-equipped to handle anything, and they let bully neighbors abuse the reporting policy to get people banned. Not a problem for me and many others because we were smart enough to see that and all the other issues happening and deactivated our accounts (also, you have to request that your Facebook data is removed manually by Nextdoor if you've connected your accounts, just FYI and again didn't apply to me but may to you).

It is also great for criminals to use, to get really good information (including name and address) on people in a neighborhood (and yes, you can get access to information outside your neighborhood and even an account in another neighborhood pretty easily) to use to commit crimes. Any criminal who can gather basic data right in front of their face already has enough to do very well using Nextdoor but a criminal who adds good social engineering skills could (and probably does) clean up in multiple neighborhoods!... as long as the criminal isn't an ethnicity that gets reported by the racists in all of these Nextdoor "neighborhoods". It isn't building community it is dividing and dangerous. Avoid this "service" like the plague.

There is no way I can recommend this absolutely horrible app in good faith to my fellow man.
This site is so corrupt and biased, and ran so poorly. It's shameful and embarrassing for this corporation.
It's a shame, because the site could have a good premise. But unfortunately, the corporation, CEO, and minions Destroyed this site- for Possibly being a decent helpful neighborly site.
The moderators, leads,and customer support team are completely juvenile, and vindictive, Along with not following the company guidelines.
When you are active on the site, everybody tattles on everybody for trigger words and comments. It's Extremely childish.
The moderators and leads do not adhere to the company policy guidelines, but intern they pick and choose what they feel is incorrect lingo by their feelings; Not by the company guidelines!
When you write the company to report an issue, such as a poor moderators and a vindictive leads. You will either be ignored, Receive an incompetent representative, who Clearly does not read your complaint, nor cares, and just writes back with a bunch of misinformation, or they will deactivate your account for being difficult Because you wish to accuse a fellow team member. Hence the word, vindictive.
This company prides itself on being neighborly, kind, nondiscriminatory, non-bulling, and racist. But yet they are all the above.
Who wants to be on a site that behaves like teenagers? I sure don't.
Do yourself a favor before you join this app.
Do your own research.
Start with the Better Business Bureau. 99% one star reviews with the same complaint I am writing above. There are also other review sites that are exactly the same.
If that is not enough evidence for you not to join this toxic site, then I don't know what to tell you.
And to end; The site does nothing regarding assisting the fellow neighbor, other than the occasional lost dog or lost cat. It really is a waste of time.