# Nextdoor makes me tired **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917 "2024-01-31T15:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/181 "2024-06-26T17:42:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > They replied, “better safe than sorry”. Ironically, if it actually was a venomous snake the actual safe course of action would be to leave it alone. I recall hearing a statistic that most people who get bitten by snakes get bitten _because they were trying to kill the snake_. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/182 "2024-06-26T17:58:56Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > People on NextDoor apparently learned their animals from neolithic cave drawings. The people who made those cave drawings definitely knew their animals. Most of them are highly unlikely to show up in modern people’s yards, however. – my next door feed is still mostly full of introductions and (despite my changing the settings) miscellaneous notices of statewide or wider area things I already knew about; though changing the settings has at least I think gotten rid of the pictures of wildlife people found in their yards on the other side of the country. If I want to see those, I can find some via google. For the most part I glance at the title and hit delete on the notification. I rarely go to the site itself, because it’s so slow to load and so hard to work with. > [@WildaBeast](#): > > I recall hearing a statistic that most people who get bitten by snakes get bitten _because they were trying to kill the snake_. Yup. Because generally, if you’re not trying to kill the snake (or at least doing something to make the snake think that you are), the snake has no reason to bite you. Humans are way outside the size range for prey for snakes in most of the world. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/183 "2024-06-26T18:10:12Z")
The “every snake is a copperhead” reminded me of another Nextdoor thread from years ago. Someone posts a picture of a spider asking “What kind of spider is this? Is it dangerous?” Several people post variations of “It looks like a brown recluse to me.” I post that brown recluses are not endemic to California, so it’s highly unlikely it’s a brown recluse, along with a link to a cite. Most likely it’s just some harmless brown spider. The majority or people ignore my post and continue claiming it’s probably a brown recluse. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/184 "2024-06-26T18:47:12Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Here’s another thing about Nextdoor, although I might be the one making others tired. > > Every now and then someone posts a picture of a bug or a bird and asks the name of the critter. A couple of dozen people will pipe up and identify it, and they’re ALWAYS WRONG. I like natural history, and can usually identify common animals, but if I don’t know, I resort to Google and the answer is easily found. You are also describing Facebook groups for IDing whatever. Filled with Dunning–Kruger nitwits confidently shouting wrong or vague or answers. For instance beachcombing and rock ID groups often get questions about black rocks with holes through them found on the US. They are pieces of jet that have been drilled through by burrowing clams. But as sure as the sun rises half a dozen people will jump in to say that it is a hag stone. “Hag stone” is a superstition-based nickname for a rock with a hole through it. They are confidently asserting that a rock with a hole through it is a rock with a hole through it, thinking that they have contributed sonething meaningful. Also, any rock with a “line all the way through it” is declared to be a “wishing stone”. As for vague answers, you get critter IDs at the genus or family level. I remember for example a post of a large beetle with eyespots that immediately got several answers that it was a click beetle when there are thousands of species of click beetles and what was posted was distinctively an eyed elater. It is like showing a four-legged domestic mammal hoping for an answer like “French Poodle” and getting a dozen people identify it as “a dog”. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/185 "2024-06-26T18:53:36Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I remember for example a post of a large beetle with eyespots that immediately got several answers that it was a click beetle when there are thousands of species of click beetles and what was pisted was distinctively an eyed elater. It is like showing a four-legged domestic mammal hoping for an answer like “French Poodle” and getting a dozen people identify it as “a dog I was just on a birdwatching (sic) tour where the _guide_ did this. Way unimpressive! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/186 "2024-06-26T19:30:45Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > They are pieces of jet that have been drilled through by burrowing clams. So why do clams burrow through jet? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/187 "2024-06-26T19:31:48Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is like showing a four-legged domestic mammal hoping for an answer like “French Poodle” and getting a dozen people identify it as “a dog”. Actually, we had a lady post a picture recently of a piece of china with a marking on the bottom, questioning “what is this?” Several wags chimed in immediately to let her know it was a bowl. I wasn’t one of them, but I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/188 "2024-06-26T19:34:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So why do clams burrow through jet? They burrow through rock for protection. They burrow through jet specifically because it is soft, and it is there. > **[Pholad borings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholad_borings)** > > Pholad borings are tubular burrows in firm clay and soft rock that have been created by bivalve molluscs (boring clams) in the family Pholadidae. The common names of clams in this family are "pholads", "piddocks", and "angel wings"; the latter because their shells are white, elongated and tend to be shaped like a wing and have sculpture somewhat reminiscent of a wing. > Pholads are unusual bivalves capable of boring into various kinds of rock, firm clay and peat, and they live permanently in the ... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/189 "2024-06-26T19:39:22Z")
Thanks. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/190 "2024-06-26T19:40:05Z")
I find myself oddly drawn to experiencing this fountain of _Idiocracy_ for myself. Is it easy to cancel your membership or whatever and forevermore not be bothered by the site and its advertisers? Or is it a one way trap door into spam-hell? Does one need a membership at all? Obviously I need to give them some address to orient them to which local content I want to see, but beyond that? ~~Enquiring~~ Morbidly curious minds want to know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/191 "2024-06-26T19:44:51Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I recall hearing a statistic that most people who get bitten by snakes get bitten _because they were trying to kill the snake_. True! If you absolutely must convince a snake to move away from where it is, a squirt with a garden hose will make it skedaddle. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/192 "2024-06-26T19:49:39Z")
My guess is the snake sees the garden hose and thinks, “Shit, that’s a big-ass snake. Better get outta here.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/193 "2024-06-26T19:51:04Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I recall hearing a statistic that most people who get bitten by snakes get bitten _because they were trying to kill the snake_. But sometimes the snake just hopes to go viral. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q5A5-jWNkVo/maxresdefault.jpg "Man bitten on head by snake after opening front door #snake #snakevideo #snakebite") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5A5-jWNkVo) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/194 "2024-06-26T20:01:12Z")
We have counted at least 3 snakes in our yard. We’re doing everything we can to keep them here. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/195 "2024-06-26T20:14:38Z")
> **Spouse 1** : Honey, that’s the doorbell. I’m all messy; would you get it? > **Spouse 2** : Sure. Sigh. … [peeks through peephole] Oh, it’s those darn Jehovah’s Witnesses again. > **Spouse 1** : Sic the snakes on 'em. > **Spouse 2** : Gladly! 🐍 🐍 🐍 😁   ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/196 "2024-06-26T20:21:37Z")
In the nextdoor thread I griped about, the OP positively identified his mystery bugs as Largus bug nymphs. Yet ninnies are still posting to say they are ladybugs. I give up. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/197 "2024-06-26T20:24:51Z")
What, posting at SDMB hasn’t learned ya that people don’t read the comments before they comment? 🐍 🐝 🐛 🦋 🐞 🐜 🪲 🕷 🪳 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/198 "2024-06-26T20:37:45Z")
'Zactly. Skim thread title, don’t even glance at OP body, don’t read the almost 200 posts, then drop your ~~turd~~ pearl of wisdom in the collective punchbowl then move on. _That’s_ the smart way to do social media! I get to spend so much more time displaying my wisdom and waste so little time reading other’s drivel. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/199 "2024-06-26T20:43:48Z")
People. They bug me. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/200 "2024-06-26T21:44:49Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Yet ninnies are still posting to say they are ladybugs. I give up. I once posted about an item I was offering for free. Even after I posted that the item had been taken, people asked if it was available. And the post only had maybe half a dozen replies. I learned that once a post has been solved, completed or is no longer relevant, lock the thread or it will get replies forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917.md?page=11)