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Owner is an Indian National and calls that were not from a recording all had an Indian accent. Seemed to call at all hours of the day, all day, every day. Abruptly stopped when I quit NextDoor. Coincidence? They get our phone number when we sign up and we agree that they can share our info with their advertisers, they know our neighborhood and therefore know approximately in what socio-economic group we fall. Saleable info all.

Once they have your personal information, Nextdoor doesn't care if you have a good experience. Local admins or "leads" can kick you off without giving you a reason. Nextdoor does not respond to messages about power abuse from their admins and as a result passively encourages bullying behavior. Once they have somebody in charge, Nextdoor just wipes their hands and moves on. There seems to be no training, reporting or regulations required to be a "lead." These leads allow others with the same views to gang up and abuse those with different viewpoints. They don't even have to identify themselves so you don't know who you need to report.

I've been reported consistently by the same Lead (who is also posting and bragging about all of the guns he owns on his own posts). I haventhe total support of my community when occasionally posting about found animals, pets in local shelters, anything helping our community animals and they are constantly reported by one particular Lead who appears to have control even over Nextdoor Support. Yet they allow the same people to post over and over again about useless things and are allowed to stay on and post. It's not run by biased people but control freaks! Horrible site!

In our community, nextdoor does get used for the purpose it is Intended, like to get recommendations when you need a plumber. It also gets used to bring attention to what city hall is up to and express concerns. Sometimes some of us get a bit overly emotional (especially against local politicians) but I have not seen much in the way of personal attacks. We even have community get togethers every once in a while to ut a face to a name. I do think it is very important in a group like this that people use their real names, so we do not hide behind anonimity.

I was on Nextdoor for a few months and all the neighbors were bullying me about my dogs. Come to find out one of the dogs wasn't even mine and someone reported me for I don't even know what and I ended up banned from the site. I never said anything derogatory or defamatory against anyone in the neighborhood but yet I was the one who ended up banned, which is fine with me because all it is is a base for a bunch of immature adults to whine about everything. You're better off on Facebook. Stay away from Nextdoor.

Nextdoor is fraught with problems. We had one woman using it in her 80s who, due to eyesight, typed in all caps. Virtually no one on Nextdoor would accept her handicap and accused her of shouting. She didn't understand browser or display zoom to use lower case. Despite that she was active for awhile and contributed. Her contributions were worthwhile and insightful. Eventually she was stalked online by someone in the neighborhood who took the time, at 2 AM, to sequentially flag all of her posts. It was very upsetting and stressful for her. Nextdoor offered zero support in identifying the stalker and deactivating their account. All of this information was clearly in their log files. This was escalated all the way to the CEO who did nothing. The woman dropped off Nextdoor. About 6 months later, after all the damage was done, Nextdoor identified the perp who had already moved out of the neighborhood.

Nextdoor is also increasingly political, and following a national trend of social media, highly left-leaning. If you're a member of Antifa you'll fit right in. I've seen some very hostile posts by know-it-all bullies attacking simple benign suggestions or comments. I've also begun to see a pattern of progressive social justice warriors now using Nextdoor as a platform. Moderation is non-existent. The email notifications you will receive - bombarded with is more descriptive - will contain the rants, ravings and unwanted opinion of everyone unemployed, mentally-ill or home-bound and bored person in your neighborhood.

My advice to everyone is to consider Nextdoor just as toxic as Facebook, Twitter and most television. Very little has been accomplished in improving our neighborhood using Nextdoor. Get a dog instead.

Nextdoor has no training procedures in place for moderators. Moderators need to identify who they are, the post they have an issue with, and what they need with the very first message. When someone says you're making me nervous, you're scaring me, perhaps that's the clue to act like a bit professional. When someone says, let's talk with the police, I feel scared then they should but not keep demanding explanations. They have your address too. Poor website with no training or procedures in place to have someone review a moderator. Do not use, do not put yourself and family at risk.

I was suggested to try out this website but I can't even do that. I tried looking for my neighborhood but it asked me to sign up and when I put in my address it said the neighborhood didn't exist and that I needed to select it on the map. So it takes me to the map and the neighborhood I live in is already a selected neighborhood. Whoever designed how to use this website does not know what they are doing and they should hire someone to redo the entire website and app.