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Have you noticed how the formal invitation was sent to each individual home in each subdivision in every county in the United STates? Who would fund such a promotion for a free site? Come on people, wake up! The governments in all these areas are directly involved with censoring you. They have especially targeted certain areas of middle and lower class status to see and hear directly what complaints to pinpoint using key words such as those listed@ "www.forbes. Com/.../department-of-homeland-security-forced-to-release-list-of-keywords As well as common words associated with illicit activity, racism and hate crimes. Terrorism is real and Homeland Security takes action in every way possible to fight it. At the same time this is costing the public.

In my neighborhood, the Nextdoor "lead" and the HOA president are one and the same person. This has morphed into a glaring CONFLICT OF INTEREST. As the Lead, he deletes postings, or moves them to an inactive private discussion group, about HOA items that may not reflect the narrative that he wants to present to the community. This turns into censorship & propaganda akin to a state controlled press. It's starting to feel like I am living in Russia.

Apps like this are what will lead not far into the future to a totalitarian state or fascist technocracy where cyberstalking and data mining for information on individuals is unregulated, unrestricted, and available to just about anybody, including dangerous cybercriminals and espionage agencies of the government. Imagine if you were a domestic abuse victim and you were trying to find help without the abuser knowing about your efforts to get help. It would be nearly impossible to find help in locations that have Nextdoor activated. Don't support cyber stalking like Nextdoor's and enjoy a safer, more ethically transparent neighborhood and community for it. Bottom line -- I think this is an ominous development in unwanted and threatening cybersurveillance, stalking, and fosters suspicion, mistrust, and backhanded gossip in communities that could get along perfectly fine if they would only deal openly and transparently with one another. Don't encourage services and cyberstalking using apps and services like Nextdoor.

If admins were not affiliated with the neighborhoods the app would be infinitely better. As it is now, biased administrators allow and help create dangerous and hostile environments. We have a group of residents that typically band together and practice little restraint with what they post, including profiling, criminal accusations with no proof, pictures of individuals because the thought they "looked suspicious" and just general whining and nastiness. Unfortunately, the admin approves of their methods and this does not create a strong neighborhood. Because this one group is permitted to post and bully the rest of the neighborhood, it creates suspicion and animosity.

On the plus side, this app will definitely let you know whom to steer clear of in the neighborhood.

Nextdoor allows strangers to verify accounts for others who live in the neighborhood. I asked Nextdoor 6 times in 6 different emails to tell me who verified my account and they refused to share that person's name. They are more concerned with that person's privacy than my privacy, and my right to choose whether or not to participate in the service. I would never use Nextdoor for these reasons. Plus, there is no way to actually speak with a senior level manager, they do not use the telephone - it's only emails and replies and responses can take many hours, days.

I joined NextDoor and for the most part find their discussions pretty informative, and useful, especially information about suspicious people in the neighborhood. In my town of San Jose, the SJPD is heavily understaffed, and the thieves have been taking advantage, burglary is up almost 400% here. Next-door is trying to provide a decent platform, but as soon as I could see that this was a great tool for savy criminals, I started to question the use of using our real names and address or street name. I feel that one who wants to find out specific info on a neighbor, by joining the network, one is actually making themselves more vulnerable to identity theft, or a target for burglary. Some people who want to join and meet others, may share too much info about themselves on their profile, welcoming criminals to profile them. I changed my last name and within a day was reported and kicked off. I miss the forum, but I value my identity and want to keep my family safe.

We had a very complicated expansion project where we had multiple parties involved: the owner of our building (whom we rent from), the city, and many different architects and engineers. When I first met Darin I felt that he was a trustworthy individual and I wanted him to help me accomplish this project so that I could keep focused on running my business. As we moved forward on the project the city proposed many hurdles that we think we should of been able to get around rather easily. However, much to our surprise dealing with the city of Charlotte and building is quite difficult to say the least. The city somehow turned a $117,000 project into a $256,000 project because of all their wonderful codes and regulations. Long story short the owner of our building agreed to pay for a portion of this project and unfortunately he didn't personally know Darin from Metrogreenscape. As a result he wanted to use his contractor. So we had to switch contractors in the middle of our project. As you could image this is never an easy change because it gets hard to draw the lines between what has been completed and hasn't been completed (Much of the initial work was completed on paper and had many hours intertwined into the project). Luckily for me Darin and I had a good working relationship and we worked together to come up with an agreeable figure that we could both agree on. Wished we could have just kept moving forward on the project with Metro but that was out of my hands. All in all Metrogreenscape was a good contractor and fair in their dealings. John

Maybe we're lucky here in Seattle, but I think (for the most part) my neighbors on Nextdoor.com have been super helpful, and warmly welcoming. I'm generally proud of our neighborhood and city, and the open dialog enabled by Nextdoor has made a me feel more connected to the issues that affect us. The overwhelming majority of conversations have been civil, questions have been answered quickly, and neighbors are more than willing to help and support each other.

However, based on the reviews here, I think you are talking about another website entirely.

One of the reasons I continue to invite people to try Nextdoor (via the free postcard service) is that I believe that coming together as neighbors in our communities can help our society and our country to heal its wounds. It's not hard to imagine a world where we treat each other with respect, whether or not we accept or understand all of our differences. On Nextdoor, we have the opportunity to create a community, or destroy a community. I'm glad to see it's working better in Seattle than it appears to be elsewhere.

I was "invited" to join this site by a neighbor, one I like and our daughters are friends. I thought, "hey, I'll give it a try". WRONG CHOICE! Immediately when i get on, I see a post that was actually of a siting of my own dogs who had gotten out that morning, and were running the neighborhood. Some people took that post as a forum to insult me and my family's love for our animals, calling us bad pet owners and we should be fined, let animal control get them, etc etc. Real neighborly, right! When I replied back and thanked those that had helped us find them before and let the other people know that their comments were not necessary. But I noticed, those same people who were insulting me were doing the same on other peoples posts that were looking for their dogs. So, I stood up for all of us. Well, that went nowhere, and soon I was being attacked and accused of not being neighborly and stand offish and that they were only trying to help.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, but your neighbors FAR FAR AWAY! Needless to say, I deactivated after less than 24 hours on that site. I don't have the time or patience for bullies, even if they do live in my neighborhood. I am fine with knowing just the people on my immediate street, and then meeting those others that get the pleasure to encounter my spoiled rotten boy dogs that have an artistry for escape.

I belonged to Nextdoor for almost one year and finally got bullied into leaving. I tried flagging the posts that were degrading, nasty, and falsely accusatory. But nothing ever came of any flagging actions. Several of them men virtually started hounding me because of my reports and accounting of the lack of local policing of criminal reports in our local neighborhoods. The level of nasty and degrading posts that were made about me were digusting. After flagging the posts, nothing happened. I got so disgusted and humiliated that I deactivated my account. Not worth it!.