# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/221 "2024-10-27T01:02:14Z")
Laughing my butt off! Somebody posted, “whose child is this? My puppy is all upset!” with some Ring doorbell footage of a little kid playing Ding Dong Ditch. The grin on his face, it slays me! 😆 ---
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/222 "2024-10-27T01:25:54Z")
That could easily turn into a game of ding dong dead. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/223 "2024-10-27T01:29:43Z")
Truly, we lived in a golden age. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/224 "2024-10-27T20:37:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That could easily turn into a game of ding dong dead. \*Offer good in the US only; not redeemable in the developed world. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/225 "2024-10-28T11:27:36Z")
Around here it seems half the ND posts are people pleading for somebody to give them money to afford their rent. The other half are “I heard sirens? What’s happening?” Often failing to mention even roughly where they live and when this was. Our “local” ND area seems to encompass 2 adjacent burbs and parts of a third comprising a couple hundred thousand people. Shit happens and cops or ambulances use sirens pretty often across an area that large. IOW, 'Merican’s are morons. And, ref the OP, ND makes me tired too. Or stabby. Mostly stabby. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/226 "2024-10-28T14:48:47Z")
There’s generally next to nothing on mine. And the pages take so long to load, and the interface is so screwed up, that I usually just ignore it. However, yesterday somebody posted reminding people of the existence of [Proposition 1](https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2024/07/ballot-prop-and-abstract-staff-draft-2024.pdf). I sighed, and thought I’d better go look at the rest of the post. The original poster actually hadn’t taken a position, but was just reminding people that it’s there (in NY propositions are on the back of the ballot; despite large signs about this some people probably don’t see them.) But someone had replied ‘thanks, I’m voting against it.’ So I posted “I’m voting for it” and left it at that. I now have a notification that somebody has replied to my reply. I’m a bit afraid to go look, though I probably will at some point. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/227 "2024-10-28T15:37:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Our “local” ND area seems to encompass 2 adjacent burbs and parts of a third comprising a couple hundred thousand people. My local ND area is just my subdivision as far as I know, but by default ND will show you posts from “other nearby neighborhoods”. Nextdoor seems to define nearby neighborhoods as my entire town plus every adjacent suburb, i.e. an area of a couple hundred thousand people. And since I cant be bothered to log in to Nextdoor and change that setting, I see posts from that entire area. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/228 "2024-10-28T18:02:47Z")
Lately I’ve been email notifications of supposedly new posts, but when I click on the link to read the post I get a message that the post has been deleted. Not just a single post, but the entire topic. Most of them seem to be political in nature, judging from the abbreviated post in the email, so maybe there was something that violated the ND rules. But I just got one this morning that had something like 20+ replies. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/229 "2024-10-28T19:02:51Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I now have a notification that somebody has replied to my reply. I’m a bit afraid to go look, though I probably will at some point. So I looked, half expecting to see a trainwreck thread or a disappeared on like @LurkMeister just reported or a great long reply along the lines of Think Of The Innocent GirlChildren In The Bathrooms (well yes I am; including the trans ones. If it even gets interpreted to say that, which isn’t clear.) – and guess what I find? One additional reply to the thread – very briefly agreeing with me. Whew! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/230 "2024-10-28T20:54:13Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > My local ND area is just my subdivision as far as I know, but by default ND will show you posts from “other nearby neighborhoods”. Nextdoor seems to define nearby neighborhoods as my entire town plus every adjacent suburb, i.e. an area of a couple hundred thousand people. And since I cant be bothered to log in to Nextdoor and change that setting, I see posts from that entire area. Thanks. I wasn’t aware of their being two differing sizes of “local”. I have not figured out how to find out what they define my truly immediately local area as. Their profile UI is at least as useless as the rest of their useless UI. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/231 "2024-10-28T21:56:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I have not figured out how to find out what they define my truly immediately local area as. I’m actually rather dubious that they care. I do seem to have managed to get rid of the posts about somebody seeing a cougar in their back yard – out in Colorado or some such. But I still get stuff from twenty miles or more away, in different towns and different counties than I’m in; as well as some that appears to be statewide. Doing it by blocks wouldn’t work out here; but there really doesn’t seem to be any idea of what is and isn’t the same community. Which wouldn’t be that big a deal except isn’t that what they’re supposed to be about? ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/232 "2024-10-29T05:53:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > but there really doesn’t seem to be any idea of what is and isn’t the same community. Which wouldn’t be that big a deal except isn’t that what they’re supposed to be about? In Memphis every neighborhood has a name and that’s the way Nextdoor is set up. I could see only my neighborhood if I wanted to. But there was also a choice to see “surrounding neighborhoods” so I have that, too. That setup shows me posts from people within a few miles around me and seems to work pretty well. I can imagine that this would not work so well for rural areas that don’t have specific names, though. I have noticed that sometimes, especially on big threads about something that affects a large part of the city, other neighborhoods are represented. I’m not sure how that works. ---
**Author:** ![Strenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Strenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strenger)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/233 "2024-10-29T07:17:04Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I have noticed that sometimes, especially on big threads about something that affects a large part of the city, other neighborhoods are represented. I’m not sure how that works. Me neither…I **very** regrettably signed up for Nextdoor quite a few years ago. Every hysterical bit of Gladys Kravitzery shows, up despite repeatedly “unsubscribing” (Nextdoor uses a different definition than many other “people”). None of it is remotely relevant, and even if it were, would I care? Answer? No, absolutely do not care about my neighbors and the feeling is mutual. But yes the net they cast is pretty wide, in my case. Meh, it’s to an e-mail account I use for junk mail, so not really a big deal. Just an annoyance. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/234 "2024-10-29T12:43:38Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > But there was also a choice to see “surrounding neighborhoods” so I have that, too. Do you know where that setting is? Or was it a one-time thing during our account set up? > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > In Memphis every neighborhood has a name and that’s the way Nextdoor is set up. My neighborhood name on ND is “Downtown”. Which is apt if vague. It’s not even “Downtown Burbname”. Just “Downtown”. In the middle of a vast metroblob with several true core business district downtowns and umpteen suburb-level mini-downtowns. One of which is mine. The challenge for me is that the majority of posts I see or get notified about are from farther away than any reasonable definition of our burb’s downtown area. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/235 "2024-10-29T18:16:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Do you know where that setting is? Or was it a one-time thing during our account set up? It looks like I set it up that way when I signed up in 2003. Looking at it now, there is a Neighborhoods tab under settings with them all listed and I can “unfollow” them individually. I don’t see any way to add a neighborhood, though, so maybe I have the maximum allowed. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917/236 "2024-10-29T22:07:19Z")
Awesome vector; thank you!!! I see I’m subscribed to over 30 “nearby neighborhoods”. Of those I recognize the most distant is 6 miles away across solid dense suburbia. If I kill about 3/4ths of those it’ll certainly improve the relevance of what I see. But none are in adjacent municipalities, so that still leaves the outer looser defintion of "nearby"as a black box. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nextdoor-makes-me-tired/996917.md?page=11)