NextDoor.com Reviews
NextDoor.com is a social network designed to connect members of the same neighborhood with the aim of allowing users to interact with neighbors, as well as local businesses and public services.
The company states they provide services in 11 countries and 280,000 neighborhoods globally.
How Does NextDoor.com Work?
According to their website, the goal of this website is to give neighbors and communities a place to interact with each other to get to know each other better, and in the process, create a better and safer community.
To sign up as a member of NextDoor.com, you must submit your residential address as well as go through a series of multiple verifications to ensure that you are actually a member of the neighborhood, and not an outsider.
Members must always use their real names, and not chosen internet handles, and they have completely control over how much information is shared and where it is shared.
They also promise that their member information will never be available on public search engines like Google, and that no member information will ever be shared with third party advertisers.
Once you are a member, NextDoor encourages you to use their site as a place to share information, for example to spread the word about break-ins, find trustworthy babysitters or pet sitters, ask for help in locating lost pets, or simply to network and organize neighborhood social functions.
Cost/Price Plans
NextDoor states that they are free for users to sign up and connect with their neighbors and other members of their community.
In order to ensure the most memberships and interaction, this website decided not to include membership costs.
Refund Policy
Since no fees are paid at any time to NextDoor.com, there is no Refund Policy being offered by this website.
Instead, if customers are ever invited by an ad or a link to go outside of this website and make a purchase, they will have to adhere to any Refund Policies offered by the website where they are actually making their purchase.
Customer Service Contact Info
Customers who have questions, concerns, or complaints they would like to direct to their Customer Service team can contact them by submitting them directly to their website through their Terms & Conditions page, which offers a Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.
Reputation
Unfortunately there are some negative complaints about this website online.
However, none of these complaints appear to be about the security of this website or the lack of privacy measures, which is often what most people are concerned about when sharing details of their home life.
Most of the complaints by far were regarding the content of the information discussed on their neighborhood’s page, with most people saying that this is just a place for judgmental neighbors to sit around and gossip about the people in the neighborhood they don’t know or don’t like.
Others complained that there were too many neighbors using this site as a way to sell or promote things for sale.
However, it does genuinely seem as though these experiences are not in the majority, and that your experience will depend greatly on the neighborhood you live in, and the “lead” contact in your neighborhood, as the lead is the person who establishes your neighborhood page and sends out the initial invitations.
In general it seems as though there is a lot of good that can be taken away from the proper and appropriate use of this site, and the more neighbors who get involved, the more likely it is that the site will be used for what it is intended for.
Competitors and Alternatives?
Certainly the internet is home to a wide variety of different social networks, and many neighborhoods already offer pages on popular social media sites like Facebook, or they may offer a Twitter handle for sharing of informational as well.
If you have any experience with NextDoor or their services, please leave your reviews below.
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This site is a left-wing driven media site. Not really a neighborly site at all.
NextDoor reflects how sick Amerikkka truly is
Nextdoor censorship of conservative views.
Find Another App
just a bit about next doors procedures
I was a lead on Nextdoor for over 4 years, i did my best to follow the guidelines posted by the app when posting or reviewing posts, never voting to remove a post that did not violate the guidelines.
One of my posts were removed that did not violate any guidelines. The ensuing conversation on that post was 2 days running with 200 comments, and the determination based on the conversation was that a certain elected official that was due for re-election lied to the public.
When the post was removed, I questioned the removal asking what exact guideline was violated. And also accessed their, behind the black curtain, moderator community forum to report the violation, while in that forum i personally witnessed and responded to a post where a moderator was conspiring with other moderators to fabricate a guideline in an effort to remove a post that was contrary to the moderators personal religious beliefs.
Because I replied with "no one had the right to cut out the tongue, sew the mouth, or duct tape the mouth, of any user that didnt violate the guidelines", I was immediately removed as lead on the platform.
Update: My account has now been banned from the platform for reporting this.
Leftist Echo Chamber
Nothing but a leftist echo chamber.
Your garden variety libs, are bullies. Your dem voting neighbors, family members are all bullies at heart.
Post something they don't like, no matter how innocuous. Simply disagree with them and insults come out.
Echo, word for word their slings and arrows and the one being bullied gets banned.
I've been yeeted three times now and all of a sudden they need to verify my account with a "post card."
Not going to happen because they are unhinged and violent. The number of threats I've gotten by my "neighbors" is unbelievable. The fact that they never get booted believable because bullies always have each other's backs.
Liberal bullies won't always be in charge and they will find out how unproductive, and vile it is to bullied into silence.
Chinese Communist party
Nextdoor is a far bizarre leftist dialog
I'm in town outside of Dallas, my account was suspended indefinitely for posting a photo of Trump/"orange man" hugging a U.S. flag, i was turned in by new neighbors from Southern Cal that chose to flag the post, welcome to communism my friends and Nextdoor.com is leading the way!
Their ethics rules are a guideposts for everything that's gone wrong with America today, it's sickening when read aloud, i'm surprised i wasn't shot at dawn by these liberal nazis !
Where I live people have followed those they disagree with to work and had them fired. It is a bogus hate filled cancel culture platform
Unhelpful
Very biased platform.
100% accurate review, Thanks for posting!
Nextdoor doesn't allow national political comments in the General Feed, only in Groups. Members sign a statement they will comply with Nextdoor Community Guidelines, which most members don't read.
"Nextdoor doesn't allow ANYONE POLITICALLY TO THE RIGHT OF MARX to make national political comments in the General Feed..."
Fixed it for you.
Very biased platform.
Moderators are supposed to follow Guidelines written just for them on how to moderate. Nextdoor provides many opportunities for training for Moderators including national Zoom meetings. Nextdoor requests that neighborhood Leads set the tone on conversations that don't follow their Guidelines to the point of reporting content that violates them. In my area, we use Nextdoor to help reunite Lost pets, help neighbors in need, as well as share safety concerns. If every member would read and follow the ND Guidelines, we wouldn't see so much problematic content. Another part of the problem is that many in our society have become very negative, unneighborly, and rude, and are not receptive to improving their behavior. The problem is not Nextdoor since they promote kindness, neighborliness, and community, but the members who bring their uncivil behavior to Nextdoor, and act as if they are on Facebook.
The problem is people like you LW.
You don't follow the guidelines, but heaven help someone who doesn't agree with you!
Nextdoor is way Too toxic
Yes, they asks you to comment on a topic, and if it doesn't abide by their "rules", you're banned! you're better off seeking a legitimate local website ran by your local city or town! Thanks for outing these hacks at Nextdoor!
Every review is 1 star (not just here, everywhere)
Cancel culture paradise. If you are interested in starting your own feral cat colony, think that Biden is the best president ever, or just like seeing blurry RING pictures coupled with wild imaginations about what it might be (spoiler alert: it's always dangerous) then ND is the right place for you.
If, however, you happen to be a sane, rational, or an otherwise normally adjusted person you'll find it's a cesspool of psychosis and misinformation.
I find the people on there to be quite rude.
100%
Absolute accurate review, don't reward Nextdoor by using their website, a few years back this webpage was not bad, now, it's run by crazies with a leftist agenda!
Beware!
Same here no reason given. I deleted the app because there’s too much toxicity nastiness.
You might find Yelp helpful.
there is nobody to talk to to find out what your infraction is
Yes, there is someone you can communicate with at Nextdoor. I've been doing it for the past years. Click on the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of each Guideline Topic. They will send an email to you and assign someone to your question or comment. Also, Nextdoor asks Leads and moderators to send Private Messages to members who are reported and explain their infraction. Unfortunately, most ND members don't read the rules and Guidelines often enough, as they change often. Anyone can report content, but only moderators can vote. ND is using AI to flag content that violates the rules, but it's not always accurate.
"Leads and moderators to send Private Messages to members who are reported and explain their infraction."
BWAHAHAHAHA
You're a funny little liar.
I have NOT once been PMd by a "lead" or "moderator" over my infractions. I just get yeeted.
Same thing happens to others who are not boot lickers to the "cool kids" (read liberals) like you.
Nextdoor a liberal fascist speech monitor
If I could give Nextdoor a 0 I would I was suspended at least 3 times from these commies People would lie curse at me and I would report them next thing I knew I was suspended The last suspension they claimed I was not using my real name but then went on to tell me I abused their guidelines.
Not only did the person who reported me for not using my real name call me a racist twice for posting about people using our community amenities and not living there. After I called the person out she lied and said she never called me a racist but I took screenshots and in two different posts she called me a racist I called Nextdoor and left a message after I was suspended. They started w the wrong person Not only did I send them the screenshot posts but found a post on Twitter that they suspended someone for posting God Bless AMERICA. https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1546697548961927168?s=21 NEXTDOOR are nothing but Marxists and need to be sued for what they are doing. I not only called an attorney to discuss this but feel we all need to start fighting back These platforms were meant to shut us up and were created for just this many years ago.
It is all part of the plan to **** conservative minds up I am done w these leftist platforms that talk about being kind and non discriminatory but don’t practice what they preach if anyone is interested in filing a class action lawsuit let me know
100%
would love to file a class action lawsuit
for real
you're 100% right, email me at [email protected], i would love to join a class action suit against these commies who ruin peoples ability to communicate with their local neighbors, we need to create a different website for neighbors, just call it 'Neighbors'
Discrimination on next door by mods....
Very true.
Amen.
I'm not a Christian, but they do yeet people they think are Christian.
Had one liberal harridan post "You're a joke, that's not very "Christian" of you.
My response "Oh, isn't that cute. You believe in an imaginary sky-fairy."
My account was permanently disabled.
The harridan who thought she could brow beat someone she mistakenly thought was a Christian: Still there.
This was not a thread about religion, but about the whole Roe V Wade dust up the left collectively lost their mind over. Liberals are so indoctrinated that they assume everyone who is anti-murder is a Christian. I simply stated that I no longer care about the "health and safety of women who get oopsie pregnancies" because the "safe, RARE, and legal" mantra is a LIE. Nothing unkind, uncivil, or cruel in my post.
No PM for a lead or moderator. Just a page screaming that my account was perma banned when I tried to log back in a few days later.
Censorship Galore!
Mob mentality rules/Encourages public shaming
As others have observed, this app really is a breeding ground for unpleasant people too toxic to be invited into an offline social group. I live on the UES and my app feed is nothing but cranky seniors, bitter divorcees, and bored housewives trying to get people evicted, fired or arrested for minor infractions or just plain old mistakes that anybody could make on any given day.
Most concerning is how a lot of these attacks and smear campaigns are directed at people of color and service industry types, demonstrating the racism and classism so prevalent on that app.
What really gets me is what absolute cowards some of these online vigilantes are. The most outspoken use fake names or don't post photos, which I thought was required on that app.
Some of them are obscenely stupid and upload people's photos and embellish stories only to have the target of their attack see the post and call them on their blatant dishonesty. One woman swore a man "threw her dog across the street." An eyewitness to the altercation commented and said the man simply pulled the dog's leash in a panic because, as he was running and wasn't looking up, he almost tripped over the dog.
Another crazy person stalked two dog walkers a few blocks, snapped their photos, and badgered them with questions about the dogs because she was sure - absolutely sure - they were kidnapping dogs because the dogs didn't react to the walkers a certain way. The owners of the dogs had to step in to assure everyone the two people were excellent care providers.
God forbid you be homeless or mentally ill due to a global pandemic and behave erratically. Especially if you're a black man. All the White Women will run to post about the mean man that pulled his pants down on the Q train or shouted obscenities at them while they walked their store/breeder-bought Bison Frise or daschund.
Imagine being so miserable that you have to hunt down service industry people and front line workers and take their photos so you can hop on that app and virtue signal in exchange for praise for your bravery and concern for your community.
I've warned my dog walker to be very careful should he take my pup into Carl Schurz park in our neighborhood specifically for this reason.
The app fosters an environment that encourages mob mentality. "Ooooh! Post their photo on this Mommy Facebook group!!" Know why they do that? So they can have ANOTHER forum where they can squat for hours and harass/slander people they don't even know and try to get them fired. They live on these boards and forums.
The more prolific commenters rely on that app for their sole source of social interaction. Probably because their personalities are so rancid nobody wants to interact with them IRL.
Yup I was harassed on Nextdoor. A nasty person accused me of having multiple accounts and had his friends attack me. He got 3 weeks suspension. Once his suspension was over he was commenting on every one of my posts as to antagonize me.. I blocked him but he can still post and see my comments.. blocking feature is a joke . You block someone but they can still see your posts and comment. After I told him to stop I was banned on Nextdoor indefinitely. This is the worst social media I have ever been on. Terrible people and all these people do is complain about stupid issues . It should be called neighbors against neighbors.
Go to the Nextdoor guidelines and rules page, SICKENING !!!
No stars
No stars.
They ban without cause. They do not investigate and takes the word of the person that’s just as bad or worse on comments.
Please do not send me any invites to reopen my account.
Oh THANK YOU, THANK YOU for posting. We've gone half crazy trying to figure out just what in the world happened for us to not only be rejected, but banned FOR LIFE, or as long as we live at this address, we're told and we were given NO reason. We had NO arguments, no bad language, never talked about stuff like politics, religion, anything controversial, just banned. Guess someone has that kind of power.
I am banned for one month while perps who send me vile and degrading private messages have open accounts.
I just kicked off for a month for talking about our border crisis ! I was responding to someone talking about their car getting broken into… stated we had 200,000 coming in our border a month. We live in texas…. Never had all these break ins before… You know, i bet they have bots handling these suspensions or maybe a i employees (they have them at google). It is a scary world we live in!!!!
The good part about suspension is that you will find you don’t miss it. So far, I have not. Will cancel it once I am allowed to log in.
i have been banned because i no longer wanted to be on review team. now I cannot open the website my name Pam Fantasia. Phx Az
well…Lin hasa very good point. lol!,,
No propaganda
Conservative propaganda promoting guns and religion (pretty sure Jesus did not carry and loved his enemies) right after the latest gun debacle in a supposed Memorial Day message.
NextDoor should maintain it is not a message board for anything; only local news and services, not religion and politics.
Even if i don't agree with your viewpoint, i believe in your right to post it and not be removed, you're right it should be for local issues only but things that happen in our nations government spill over into our small communities as well. Thanks for having courage to speak up.
Hey, as long as you're not banned post all the loony lib nuttery you desire. It's easier to just ignore women like you.
However, your side won't let the other side post their nuttery.
So, no sympathy from me.