Nextdoor

They give so much power to a neighborhood "Lead" who is nothing more than the 1st person to join! My neighborhood has a Homeowners Association (HOA) but the Lead started the Nextdoor "neighborhood" with multiple areas & HOAs. I could understand if we had a small neighborhood but we have 140 lots which is more than the Nextdoor minimum! But our lead has "Blackballed" our request for our own neighborhood like an '80s fraternity! To make matters worse the "Lead" named our geographical neighborhood after the nearby cemetery. Try getting your neighbors to join an app & tell them they belong to the dead person neighborhood!

ND has inconsistent enforcement of the community rules. ND allows those with political favor to control access to the ND platform. My community's Leads of ND Platform in my community get people suspended for having opposite political positions. I have resolved to use Twitter & Facebook to share and receive information from my neighborhood & overall community.

I signed up for this service because it was recommended by the city that we live in for traffic alerts, street closings, etc. I signed up for the service, began to browse for vital information in my city, and only then found out that this website publishes your entire personal information for everyone in the community to see without divulging this to users before the sign up. Considering we pay for a non-published phone number and address, I was pretty upset to find all of my private information listed. I deactivated my account, and only then did I look for complaints about the company. Boy was I surprised to see the complaints on here.

I personally filed complaints with my state attorney general, the California attorney general, and the FTC, because I feel like our privacy has been violated. I'd suggest filing your own as well.

Worse than Facebook there was a lady that was going to open her restaurants during coronavirus shut down and I definitely disagreed with her and then she had me deleted permanently off of next door! And I've heard from other people that this woman would do this to anybody that disagreed with her. So basically turns into a very clicky sorority type of atmosphere other members of my family have tried to use Nextdoor and they could not because my address was permanently banned!

This site is a communist site! They support crybabies and losers! People start conversations or discussions then if you add facts or opinions they don't agree with, they "report" you! Then the site "suspends" your account or whatever! I and many other veterans fought to have the freedom of speech but this site apparently doesn't support the military, our veterans, or our right of freedom of speech! So, basically, if you use this site, you better keep your mouth shut, lol! No matter what ignorant thing others say. You aren't allowed to speak your mind!

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My experience with NextDoor is that they will censor you if you speak your mind and share your experience if it happens to be negative towards HOAs and companies that advertised on their site/app.
They will censor you without any comments or explanations but they don't prevent people who work for the HOA or has any associating with one from sending you unsolicited nasty private messages.
A one way street that I don't want to live in.

I post a headline about something happing all over for parents to be aware of and they removed it, said it was because it was not out neighborhood. I though all parents need to now about dangers in the area.

I made the Uptight Lead-Lib laugh, everyone did, it was funny, but because it contained a vague reference to BLM (hint: not Bureau of Land Management) I get banned a week later?

Embarrassingly inadequate system, their Offense Bot should have found my joke and banned me last week.

Lame.

Not to rehash all the drama but we had a 17 year old chronically posting she needed a job. Numerous neighbors gave her leads and advise. The ingrate never even thanked anyone. She continued to bombard the site and it all started when I ( a pediatrician & mother of 2) told her that she had been given extensive leads and advise but did not seem very motivated. A few others had similar comments to her. Next thing I know I am blocked. We tried to get the app on my husbands email then my daughters and found out that basically our household was banned. This was many months ago. We have moved 30-40 miles away and were inv to join because our HOA uses it. I found out I am temporarily blocked due to a 17 year old and a few women saying I was a cyber bully. My husband and I are both doctors and Im a pediatrician for goodness sake but Im still banned. Didnt realize the people running Nextdoor were dictators. I think eventually they will be sued and I understand why.

Any free service IS selling YOUR data. It cost money to run these type of sites. If you create a NextDoor account, you gave up a TON of info starting with a valid email, cell#, and home address. This is golden to marketers. And even more so for criminal 'hackers' And yes NextDoor has suffered a breach exposing its users (well, victims) personal data, including CC# of those SO DUMB to put on their profile. (and that is at least one publicly disclosed breach. Could be others not disclosed.) "We take our users' data security seriously" is what every breached company says AFTER it let it all go bye-bye, thus proving it wasn't but now might be a priority. You NEVER see that statement released before an 'incident'.

Now that said, just because one pays for a service doesn't mean they aren't still selling your data. But they don't need to rely on it's as basic source of income.

I posted the link to the movie Vaxxed and it was flagged by one of the Leads. He said it was because of "commercialism". I simply posted because many want to see it and I only posted the link. It is obvious he is one of those that does not want people to see. He violated the 1st amendment. I personally have no opinion on this issue but feel everyone should have the right to their opinion. We can not allow our country to censor information.

A property developer and staff were cyberbullying anyone who posted photographs, videos, comments, or concerns about local crimes. This was in an attempt to keep property values high by avoiding documentation of actual crime levels. Nextdoor staff allowed this cyberbullying and then would block individuals who identified the bullies claiming they had a right to be anonymous and not be outed. Nextdoor sensors its comments and protects cyberbullies while not allowing actual accountability or documentation and community involvement.