Every time I look on the site, there’s always some angry old fart ranting about youth and figuratively shaking his fist, or there’s someone bitching about the service “not being what it used to be” at some local place that they clearly caught on an off day or where the server was having a bad day.
There’s a constant low buzz of “I saw a suspicious person” (meaning a person of color) in my alley/sidewalk/driveway/etc… Should I call the cops?
Or my favorite, the constant chatter about “gunshots.” Did you hear them! Should I call the cops? Am I in danger? Never mind that the place they’re talking about has a middle school right next to it with a huge construction project going on, and that it was probably a nail gun or something similar. It’s always got to be gunshots and criminals.
How do these people live in such insecurity and fear? It’s NOT gunshots, that person is NOT trying to rob you or case your house (you probably don’t have any shit worth stealing in the first place), and servers at restaurants like anyone else, have bad days. Occam’s razor would save them a lot of effort.
Heh, we live in “the country” and Nextdoor just became available. Out here it is gunshots and the suspicious shadowy thing in the yard is a black bear. There are many single moms looking for someone willing to thaw their pipes/snake their drain/shovel their driveway/fix their car for free because.
I was just coming to start a thread about nextdoor!
There’s a current thread bitching about a stinky “sewage” smell in the air. Someone is trying to say that the recent stories about possibly putting reclaimed sewage water into the general water supply must be the reason.
I posted to point out that there’s a gigantic agricultural composting facility about ten miles south of us which reeks. When the wind is from the south, as it usually is during winter’s rainy season, you can smell the damn place really clearly.
But the conspiracy theorist in that thread isn’t having any of it. It must be that “they” are trying to poison the water supply! Sheesh.
Also, anything negative whatsoever happening in this town is the fault of our current California governor, and we should all band together to recall him/vote him out.
FWIW, they do put the treated wastewater back into the river around here, but south of town. And it’s not stinky or anything like that- it’s just water. They do a very meticulous job of treating it in order to make sure it’s safe.
But yeah, ignorance always seems to trump common sense on Nextdoor. Can’t be a nail gun or something like that, it has to be gunshots. Can’t be the commercial composting facility when the wind’s right, it’s got to be the city doing something shady for no apparent reason and to no apparent benefit.
My wife checks what we call the Nosy Neighbors Website once in a while. Predictable stuff, mainly complaints about potholes, lights and signs, along with plenty of “get off my lawn” rants. It was more popular when it started. Then during the pandemic some COVID-denying anti-vax MAGAts started posting and pissed a lot of people off. The blowback was pretty hard. They’re still out there but they found out they don’t have an audience around here.
A few years ago now, I closed my Nextdoor account because I just couldn’t stand it any more. I was too spoiled by this place, and couldn’t deal with the lack of moderation, accountability, logic, or citations for one’s assertions. “I heard” was good enough for anything from “a dog barking” to “underground tunneling happening every night near my house” to “cops are stopping everyone over on 19th Ave. and searching their cars” to anything you can think of.
The other one that gets me is people whose water/gas/electric bills are higher than they expect, and it’s got to be something nefarious on the part of the billing outfit. Even when the price raises have been published for months, there wasn’t enough notification. Or when they end up consuming a lot more than usual because their smart thermostat/sprinklers try to keep their house actually at temperature, or keep their grass alive in the summer, they’re always shocked and try to blame the utility.
We get those posts nearly monthly for something or other.
I check Nextdoor about once a month. It’s integrated into the generic front page that Edge shows me when I open my browser so I’m reminded that Nextdoor exists.
One thing I always see are angry posts complaining about posts being deleted or censored. People seem to think there’s, like, A Local Guy sitting around blasting free speech from existence “on this page”. You never actually hear anything about Nextdoor moderation outside of Nextdoor - not like Facebook or Twitter. I’m pretty sure it’s just basic algorithms. But the Nextdoor people are FURIOUS!
I refuse to join Karen Facebook, but my mother has. She lives close enough to Fort Carson that artillery training is guaranteed to bring half-a-dozen “ERMAGERD WE’RE UNDER ATTACK THERE’S GANGS BOMBING EVERYTHING NOW WHAT IS THAT NOISE?” Friends in other areas enjoy the “Why so many jets overhead?” questions when it’s Air Force Academy graduation time.
Not saying those things don’t trickle over to Facebook or local subreddits, but it seems to be much more prevalent on Nextdoor.
Around here, the prowlers tend to be Caucasian. People post surveillance videos to let people know to be on the lookout.
Our Nextdoor gets a lot of those… during duck-hunting season. Or holidays when people set off fireworks.
I see a fair number of lost pet posts. Sadly, few of them are followed up by a Reunited post. What’s tiresome is that many of these posts are ‘We let our cat out, and he hasn’t come home. He usually comes home in the evening…’ This, in an area with bald eagles, owls, and coyotes. People just don’t get it.
