Nextdoor has a rating of 1.7 stars from 3,044 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Nextdoor most frequently mention social media, real name and free speech. Nextdoor ranks 29th among Social Network sites.
Never joined this site and I do not know who signed me up or why. My inbox was inundated every day with feeds I did not care about or want. Despite hitting unsubscribe 100x, I got welcome letters, etc., which I responded to with obscenities, hoping to get kicked off. That did not work. Tried to "deactivate" with no luck. NOTHING worked until I posted my gofundme page because I have cancer. Somebody "reported" me and FINALLY I got kicked off for good! Thank God! Nice neighbors, too, in this dump of a town where I live.
Extremely rude! Hung up on me wasstranded 3 hrs they text to say they weren't coming to pick up car.
The community in my city is dominated by advocates for the "homeless industrial complex." The trolls who work for them bully and mass-report dissenting viewpoints in order to silence all opposition. One of the volunteer reviewers/leads is under contract from the city to provide promotional material. She also represents a homelessness corporation at city council meetings. She and the trolls who work with her attack anyone who criticizes a city program and report and/or remove their posts.
The "moderation" done by Nextdoor itself is frequently even worse. You can post articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association which debunk anti-vaxx propaganda and be flagged for spreading misinformation. My account was suspended for 30 days because I posted a JAMA article which found that 75% of the reported adverse effects from the covid vaccines were due to the placebo effect. The replies you get from their customer services sound like they were composed by primitive bots, or people with no education. Nextdoor customer support pretends to listen but always responds by repeating the same nonsensical assertions, like "the... content could discourage other's [sic] from getting the vaccines." The reviewer quoted the Nextdoor guideline out of context. The full text is "False or misleading information that could prevent or discourage people from receiving COVID-19 testing, treatment or COVID-19 vaccines." The source was a refereed academic study, so there was no basis for calling its content false or misleading.
The article which I posted said that 75% of reported adverse covid vaccine effects were due to the placebo effect. This would normally be considered very strong evidence that vaccines are safe, but not to Nextdoor. The only way to avoid the possibility that ANYONE might be discouraged from getting a vaccine would be to lie and say that 100% of adverse effects are due to placebo. That's what it takes to conform on Nextdoor. You are expected to agree with the ruling clique's dogma, and to hell with the facts.
Nextdoor guidelines encourage users to provide references for claims they make, but it does not recognize the validity of even the most solid and respected sources. This hypocrisy is one of the reasons Nextdoor is a third-rate social media platform.
I have a small business that operates on nickles and dimes. I was suckered into a one-month sponsorship and then they allegedly sent an email they were switching platforms and suddenly I'm being billed hundred of dollars for... are you ready? A total of 8 click throughs.
How is it that a Nextdoor leader can compare $#*! for brains to "Lets go Brandon" but pointing out this hypocracy gets me a 30 day suspension? My first suspension was for a single sentence in my first post: "Lost a few friends when I came out as a conservative"
I think the app is great but their policy sucks. The site has a personal and a business side. The personal side does not allow you to talk about their business. They monitor you. You have to use the business side and pay for any messaging about your company. Their business advertising is very limited for the money you pay.
I was sharing work that I am doing in my house and getting opinions from my neighbors and Nextdoor blocked my account for three days as a punishment for violating their advertising policy.
Maybe someone will create another competing app and allow neighbors to collaborate without limitations or censorship
No one can say anything unless it is approved by whoever decides what is and is not okay. And they don't let you know until they have banned your profile. Horrible
Nextdoor is a refreshing change from Facebook, or at least that is the goal…. A place where neighbors coming together to support each other, share helpful tips, and help reunite lost pets, keys and phones,
Nextdoor decided to deactivate my account. Now they are asking me to come back. This must be there way of acknowledging they were wrong. Too bad, I am not returning. Your quick and inaccurate decision hurts your bottom dollar. Not mine. I can help my neighborhood without you.
Good luck if you join this app. Moderators are biased, neighborhood Karen's will use it to harass and bully you, and you could do all the right things and still get accused of bullying and get taken down for 30 days! It's ridiculous how many times the real bullies get away with what they do but the rest of us get punished for things that we shouldn't be! I got banned today for making a post about bird feeders that included me calling the neighborhood ban on bird feeders due to pests "bull$#*!." They said that was uncivil and that I was bullying. Who am I bullying?!. This app is beyond ridiculous!
NextDoor creates an environment of toxicity by allowing their "Leads" to wreak havoc through power trips. They don't have any criteria for people to be Leads. Complaints about abuse by Leads are not dealt with. Hate this platform! Cancelled my membership and encourage others to do the same.
I response to an ongoing plethora of thefts of packages from porches and Christmas decorations, I used the word "scum" to describe the people doing it. Nextdoor suspended me for 30 days stating that I was being unneighborly. Nextdoor considers a THIEF a neighbor deserving our respect!
Leftys from San Fran run an app from he'll pushing their worthless ideas. Lefty admins arbitrarily decide who's post to keep based upon political leanings.
You can post something that in no way violates Nextdoor rules and get blocked. I posted factual public information after another user accused me of unethical conduct at my job and I got blocked for merely replying with facts to clear up the issue. I think all the complaints must be sent to somebody's three year old child. And there's no oversight of the Leads, so don't expect any help from them. We should all find a better app for sharing with our neighbors.
I used a pen name because this site is really nothing more than neighbors complaining about each other.
Account disabled for not using "real name"
Sorry, stupid site. If I have to live next door to some of these jerks you don't get my real name.
NextDoor is a left winged hate site disguised as a neighborhood app. I have never run into a bunch of more liberal, inane, hateful, intolerant hypocrites in my entire life. The leads are given much leeway with your private info. There have been cases here of liberal leads posting information they gleaned from the site and even reported, they were not disciplined. This site is chock full of anti-white rhetoric, 'white privilege' nonsense, and unscientific Covid misinformation. If you like leftist, intolerant, racist, mean and trite treatment? ND's the ticket.
I had to deactivate my account because I reported a racist post that was not taken down and I continued to receive racist comments. Yet, Nextdoor will censor any word that comes near swearing, or "mean" toned content. A really stiupid site for really stupid people.
Nextdoor is just shills for big pharma. Honest information is censored if it does not fit their narrative. I disgusting company.
No site admin controls over increasing spam from unwelcome government and "Team Nextdoor" posts. They remain unresponsive to my emails on this. My community is now looking for other options.
Nextdoor sounds like a good idea, but if your neighborhood has a large group of Leftist SJWs, they'll gang up on Conservative thinkers to have them silenced. A local Lead, Rick Hinojos, lures those he doesn't like into traps in attempt to have them suspended; there are several Legtist Leads in my neighborhood who think it is their duty to silence Conservative thought. I have been suspended for wishing well to a SJW who complained that I said, "I hope you have joy in your life." I was also suspended for posting a link to a USA Today article about a person who was arrested for his involvement on Jan 6. My crime? The person who got arrested is Black. I was also suspended for asking someone who was complaining about the singing at the Sunday church service (he lived near the church), "Are you saying that the parishioners should tone down their enthusiasm when praising the Lord?"(see pic of letter from ND Corp explaining my suspension). I was physically threatened for attending an Open California rally in May 2020. The local Leads refused to remove the threats. I have been called vicious names and the posts continue to appear because whatever the Left says or does is ok.
My advice to anyone who thinks for themselves - stay away from ND if you live in a Blue state. The people will bully and gang up on you. It is the worst of the worst of humanily.
Answer: The negative reviews are honest reactions to being duped into sharing too much personal information (that Nextdoor now owns and will NEVER delete and will continue to sell to advertisers until your dying day) to join a site that seems friendly on the surface, but which does NOTHING to protect users. I was bullied by a convicted murderer, who is a Lead in my neighborhood--and I was banned from the site for complaining. Leads are nothing more than early adopters of the site who have been assigned power over other users so that Nextdoor does not have to police it's own site. In short: No. The negative reviews are not wrong. Heed them! I wish I had known before it was too late!
Answer: Forget about nextdoor and leads. Get a life, a real one. Don't waste your time with toxic online communities that tend to get the worst out of people. My advise is run away while you still have some dignity left.
Answer: Kay is right. That is their policy. However, don't expect them to hold to it. We have leads unfairly removing only some people's comments and Nextdoor does nothing about it. Best bet, dump nextdoor.
Answer: Neighborhood. Rocks is in development. Another 6 months.
Answer: Truth is like oil and water. As long as the scam artist have enough venture capital (other people's money) they will continue to shake the bottle leaving it a murky view obscuring the truth. Run out of cash, they'll be exposed for the incompetent boobs they are and the top dogs will clear out their bank accounts and move on to the next scam. One look at their "leading edge tech" pulled right out of the 1980's is proof enough they will die in the tar pits just like the fellow dinosaurs. Want a state of the art app? Check out https://wiggio.com or www.neighborhoodlink.com
Answer: Dallas, SiteJabber rates it at 16%. It would surely rate lower if there weren't so many fake positive reviews. Folks review Nextdoor either 1 or 5. The fives read like ads about Nextdoor's features and potential. The ones are written by real people and give accounts of how awful their experiences were.
Answer: Several other reviewers on this site have had the same thing happen to them. We have been fully banned from nextdoor (beyond just "suspension"), but they keep our profiles, and sometimes our names still appear in the neighbor registry. They refuse to remove us fully, I suppose, in an attempt to misrepresent our endorsement and participation there. It's clearly unethical, but their TOS states that they can do this, as any nd apologist will point out.
Answer: Here's a tidy answer from corporate... Hi Colleen, Thanks for getting back to me. Our Community Guidelines prohibit posting about Lead activity on the main newsfeed. If your Leads are inactivate and youre concerned about moderation in your neighborhood, you should reach out directly to Nextdoor Support. If you have any specific concerns I can help you with at this time, please let me know. Best, Amanda Nextdoor However, the minute you alert corporate to issues with leads in your community you'll find your account terminated. They are very protective of the information surrounding who really is controlling the activities on the boards. Most people in my community are under the misguided impression that corporate is in control. They don't even consider it is their neighbor who sits in judgement.
Answer: Nextdoor wants your full legal name, house number and address and your email address that they link all together. As an added bonus... They have a little map that you can click on. That way if, OMG, you offend someone the little map leads them straight to your house. Run, do not walk, away from this site. No good comes from Nextdoor.
Answer: Your name and address will be known to everyone who uses the NextDoor application and website. I don't suggest using it. I recently discovered that low income apartments in ghetto areas might be able to use the application to do crime. Car theft, asaaults, kidnapping and just about everything else under the sun.
When neighbors start talking, good things happen.