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These sites have unscreened and often unscrupulous moderators who control EVERYTHING on the sites. They delete everything they don't like, such as opinions or suggestions and they use it as a means to abuse, retaliate and harm people they don't like or anyone who crosses him or her.

Moderators need good diplomacy skills and the ability to understand the sites' guidelines. Our moderator doesn't appear to know anything about the guidelines. She
Deletes things like crazy, even though they are perfectly legitimate. She promotes herself and post a bunch of inaccurate information that is misleading and potentially harmful.

It seems, as you can see from many other post, that the moderator positions seem to attract people looking for ways to make themselves look powerful and allow them to uncouthly manipulate others.

If Nextdoor did something to make sure they had quality moderators, as opposed to psychologically impaired creeps, there would be huge potential, especially with neighborhood safety. Sadly, all of this information is often put in the hands of potentially dangerous moderators who consistently prove themselves untrustworthy.

ND decided to be a happy place for appropriate discourse. Cannot reach any human to complain re violations of CA/Fed law. Interesting that CEO has law degree. Me too buddy. You decided to get in the business of regulating speech to keep things neighborly. But, you don't get to apply the "rules" subjectively or selectively. Next time you hear from me it will be a lawsuit I will win. No profanity. Cut and dried "rule". Bobak moron in my hood doesn't X off men who use profanity. Abuse women implicitly or explicitly. But a lot of women have been kicked off. I was kicked off. Yet nothing I wrote was anything like the screeds men get away with. Oh, and cannot complain cause cannot get ahold of a human. You need to respond to me. Have tried all methods but smoke signals. May show up. But will file lawsuit if you won't address these violations. Nextdoor has decided to be in the business of regulating speech. No one made you. Agreeing to the regulations does NOT mean we waive our legal rights. Period. So get better lawyers or Mr. CEO get acquainted with CA law. It is illegal, immoral, and just plain stupid, to apply the "rules" which are asinine in the first place, in a discriminatory fashion. People should get off. Boycott. Get the pitchforks and pound on your adorable corporate headquarters till you address this. You are likely making millions on this bull$#*! and don't care. Don't make me sue you. It is a pain in the $#*! for me. But this is outrageous. So I will if I have to.

It stinks.

We have an active civic association that represents appx. 850 homes. We have an email list but there are more emails for our area on NextDoor. So when sending out information about an upcoming event or a crime wave or something of general interest to the community, I send it both via email and post to NextDoor. Every once in a while a contentious dialogue gets going, but it either soon runs out of steam or someone intercedes to turn the conversation in a more positive direction. We also get public alerts about severe weather, road closure, crime, etc. I find it very helpful and have not encountered the issues that others have who posted negative reviews.

Most of the crime and safety alerts were by cranks trying to convince others that silly things like cars simply parking for a few minutes then leaving were stalkers or terrorists or some vast conspiracy to "target" them. They were insisting these should be reported to police! They were creating an atmosphere of fear and hate for anyone they didnt recognize. In one thread I tried to talk some sense into them of course they didnt want to hear it and when tbey attacked me the lead stepped in and publicly treated me like a child.
The site basically allows the worst idiots in your neighborhood to band together and spread fear, loathing, racism, hate and waste police man hours.
Which will only benefit nextdoor because they will recruit more members if they convince them everyone and everytbing are threats.

I live in the Aviara neighborhood in Ca. And our lead Carrie has decided this is her personal site to publically shame neighbors and shamelessly promote her own business. Since she is the lead, she controls all posts. What a joke. She is single handedly taking what could possibly be a great site for exchanging ideas and services to one of paranoia and un kind comments. I hope Nextdoor employees read some of these posts and re design their current business model, since they apparently have plans to monetize the site by adopting a "Craigslist" business format

I agree with all of the reviews on here about this website. It is nothing but a joke. I live in Doctors Inlet Reserve Middleburg, Florida. There is currently only one lead in our community named Dawn. There are many issues within our community. Definitely not the individual who should be the lead either. She picks and chooses what should be posted and deleted. Continually posting about vandalism from kids in our neighborhood when it is far from the truth- it is adults who are sick of being harassed by the HOA. I emailed nextdoor with concern for the safety of the kids within the neighborhood. The response I received back was how they NEVER take down websites. REALLY! No concern for the kids safety nor that their own rules they implement are not being followed. I have notified their venture capital- all three who fund them. Also currently notifying their 2016 press releases. Half which do not even seem legit. I would like CNN and one that is listed they have no concern for the safety of children. Think about it how does a website function with no revenue- one could only assume they could be selling your information.

I WOULD NOT EVEN GIVE ONE STAR- INSTEAD OF A STAR IT SHOULD BE PILES OF MOOT!

When I first heard of NextDoor it sounded great. But then the administrators became too demanding and unreasonable. After some research, I came across these facts:
1. NextDoor has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau.
2. Their founder was in a serious motor vehicle accident and left the scene without calling the police. Is that the type of neighbor you want?
3. What happens if someone posts that they will be at an event in the neighborhood? Isn't that making it known that no one will be at home? Since the site maps home addresses, isn't that too much of an invitation for a potential break in?
4. Their business plan makes it out to be more of a place to eventually swap or sell goods. How much more advertising will there be to promote all that?
5. The neighborhoods they create don't seem to match up with long standing boundaries, and the neighborhood names they come up with are not in any maps nor historical documents nor any news reports.
6. There seem to be too many abusive users and too many disgruntled users/former users. There is something really wrong with that website and those behind it. Beware! It seems great at first, but it becomes such a pain.