NextDoor.com Reviews

NextDoor.com
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Mob mentality rules/Encourages public shaming
June 9, 2022

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.

DomenickBizzaro August 30, 2022

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.

JessePetton September 23, 2022

Go to the Nextdoor guidelines and rules page, SICKENING !!!

No stars
June 4, 2022

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.

CherieMoore July 26, 2022

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.

FAguilera July 31, 2022

I am banned for one month while perps who send me vile and degrading private messages have open accounts.

Angelseven August 08, 2022

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!!!!

Lin August 22, 2022

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.

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

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

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

well…Lin hasa very good point. lol!,,

No propaganda
May 29, 2022

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.

JessePetton September 23, 2022

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.

StephanieStevens October 18, 2022

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.

Useless
May 29, 2022
This place is a joke. I signed on to keep up on things that might be going on around me. the only thing I saw was a bunch of people whining about things they were butt hurt about. If I wanted something this pathetic I would just watch the view. Avoid like it is a plague.

JessePetton September 23, 2022

Oh so true!

Nextdoor actively promotes censorship
May 26, 2022

Nextdoor actively promotes censorship.

Nextdoor has malcontents “report” anything and everyone that has pro-American values.

I was “banned” for 30 days for simple factual innocuous statement:

“when your side has no plausible idea or merit. Call names and rig the vote. I’ve seen it happen may times throughout the world. The CIA are masters at destabilizing”

There is nothing in this statement that is Harmful, mean or name calling per their Code of Conduct.

Nextdoor is a toxic environment

JessePetton September 23, 2022

Yes, it appears that stating anything about the U.S. Government on Nextdoor will get you booted off, the exact same censorship is going on in China, it's no coincidence!

Account temporary disabled for 30 days
May 1, 2022

Calling someone or the HOA a Karen who should mind their business is not disrespectful. Lots of people are called Karen's on Facebook and no one gets their account disabled on Facebook.

Telling someone who doesn't provide proof I'm wrong to provide proof isn't wrong either. 

Oh, and last and not least calling out Trump's mental health (or being anti Trump) isn't wrong considering that there's people that call out Biden's mental health and anti Biden on Nextdoor all the time. 

JessePetton September 23, 2022

Even though I'm a Trump type guy, you're right, you should have the right to question his mental fitness as well as anyone who is president, regardless of party, regardless of 'liberal' or 'conservative', our opinions of elected officials are valid whether we agree or not.

The United States is a constitutional republic where free speech, even online, is to be protected! Nextdoor.com should be place under anti-trust laws for violating free speech guidelines.

LWSims October 10, 2022

Freedom of Speech doesn't apply to private companies. Companies, including social media companies, have the right and freedom to make rules about what is said in their company and on their platforms. For generations, students have been taught incorrectly, or perhaps they learned incorrectly, but the Freedom of Speech only applies to freedom from government interference. To learn about the legal aspects of Freedom of Speech, read this and many other legal interpretations. https://www.carnegielibrary.org/the-first-amendment-and-censorship/

Suspended from using your platform
April 30, 2022

Obviously Jack Dorsey of Square (Block) has rubbed off in a significant way on ND CEO Sarah Friar, who used to be an executive at Square, before leaving to become CEO of ND. Censorship, freedom of expression is not on your guys plate. Drawing in many for a decent clean discussion is not obviously on your plate.

Recently I posted about a hot button issue in Scottsdale, and there were easily well over 60 folks who joined the discussion., one of whom who was highly inflammatory in his comments about a Council person. I called him out on that in no uncertain terms, and I was then suspended following his complaint, from using ND. I

f this is the way you run your business, which clearly it is, it is now understandable why the price of your stock is now down 60% from its its initial public offering/SPAC. price. I suggest you all will not be able to monetize your asst with the attitude that now clearly runs the company.

What a shame, as I have enjoyed using your sight, but now see that it is following the policy of censorship, freedom of expression not allowed, much like Jack Dorsey's Twitter, your CEO's mentor. I am hopeful someone of some stature at your company reads this. jgbloch@

JessePetton September 23, 2022

Love that you're outing these hypocrites!

Not a good place to meet your neighbors
April 27, 2022

Nextdoor.com states that they "do not allow: Attacking, berating, bullying, belittling, insulting, harassing, threatening, trolling, or swearing at others or their views". This statement is unequivocally not true but a cover up on how they really run their posts.

If you report someone for doing any of the above they will target every word you say then block you for an undetermined amount of time without acknowledging what offense you committed while at the same time allowing racist, misogynic, and anti-LGBTQA+ slurs to continue.

I have addressed this with 2 different "agents" that feel the need to respond with irrelevant scripts and quoting incorrect posts.

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

true

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

a cruel and mean atmosphere

JessePetton September 23, 2022

i had the same thing happen to me on their site, Nextdoor.com should be under anti-trust laws as setforth under freedom of speech in the U.S. constitution.

Assaulters of freedom of speech
April 25, 2022
It’s trash. Completely biased. Let’s work together to get rid of this app and put our phones down and actually talk with our neighbors. We the ppl have the power.it’s time to stand up to our tyrannical system. Let’s go! We got this!

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

i was on review team…totally by accident! and i asked to be removed after a month or so…now i am blocked from the site. from: pam fantasia previous review team member phx az reach me at pammiefantasia at gmail.com

harassment, bullying, stalking, etc.
April 24, 2022

At first this was an okay site. But the last 2 years it has been taken over by left wing psychopaths. Now it is just another Facebook.

I was banned for reporting a dishonest contractor, an electrician practicing without a license. ND didn't like this to they disabled my account.

My post was up for 2 days and during that time the verbal abuse, insults, name calling, belittling, stalking directed at me was unbelievable. Others that stood up for me got the exact same treatment.

Goodbye and good riddance ND. You are the worst.

Angelseven August 08, 2022

Another communist site

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

no question…a mean group of people.

ND inconsistent and biased
April 21, 2022

I have nothing good to say about the ND site. I keep a record of all my Posts and whom/subject it was Posted to. Nextdoor will let a feed go and go as long as it's one of their "Like" darlings. But if you challenge their "darling" then you get flagged or "Put In ND jail."

There is no way to see or challenge which Post got flagged. I never flag or block a Post I would rather debate them and put them to task. But that gets you into trouble because you're not one of the "darlings." I see it over and over again a non-political Post will go political and I'll follow it to see how long it last until it gets turned off.

ND is inconsistent and biased. Not surprised, San Fran..... based.

If you are not in the clique you are not liked!
April 21, 2022

Next door use to be a Great Service, but as of lately other groups have seem to taken over and it is no longer a group to be respected. They are a local Twitter or Facebook and is getting worse... Just by asking the question "WHY" when it comes asking why someone is not happy about something, I get banned. I said and did nothing wrong.

When nextdoor started, they were great, they were the best... Now they are the worst. They have been taken over by people who want to state their views as fact and dismiss everyone elses view, and nextdoor allows that. You ask someone why and you get suspended.

Good Bye Next Door.

CmK September 05, 2022

Delete the app like I did....you won't miss it.

pamelaCamara September 14, 2022

good advice

Great Place To Get Drama and Bullying
April 13, 2022

Very whiney, bullying, hateful app. I removed it and unsubscribed. It’s overloaded with venom. There is already too much of that in this world. It’s frightening to see how much of it is going on in your own neighborhood.

No thank you!

FAguilera July 31, 2022

People I do not know private message me with obscenities and name-calling. Who needs it.

Delusional people use it.
April 11, 2022

If I could give it a 0 I would. waste of time on this app. I was on this app twice and no more. Can't recall when I was on the app. It's for delusional people...

Liberals are out of their minds.
March 28, 2022

NextDoor is a liberal run neighborhood news source...as long as you support the liberal narrative of insanity and no idea why Joe Biden was elected through the cloud manipulation of the vote--you are good.

If you say anything about the liberal stupidity, if you have no idea of how liberals think reality exists...you are banned.

KellyR April 01, 2022

I agree Dave! I would add if you aren’t a staunch PC, liberal Caucasian, who is prepared to nod yes against your beliefs and never speak up or out against anyone no matter what they are allowed to say because of their race and follow along with the rest of the terrified sheep, than get ready to be tattled on by high school aged adults for not walking in a straight line and being sent to time out for two weeks like a child!

Sure, sometimes people are looking for pets but more often than not it’s political bs and shaming that the leaders are allowing to happen. One time a neighbor recorded her neighbor and shared it in a post just to shame her neighbor. She didn’t need anything from anyone, she only wanted to embarrass him. The post received over 400 responses from “so called caring neighbors” saying things like they were going to commit violence on the guy! Myself and other neighbors began feeling seriously scared for the guy and started asking where were the leads, this is getting serious!

The week went on and more and more people chimed in, more people began calling for the leads and yet they never responded. We started reporting the post itself and still nothing was done. I even contacted the main office and they never responded back and the post was still going. It was really sad. But they say how much they care about their neighbors, only if they are PC and they approve of them.

If you feel this app is this important to you, then it’s all yours. But you have been warned. It’s not even close to how this author makes it out to be or they wouldn’t have been sued as many times as they have been and counting! After all, they truly believe they are invincible. They don’t feel they owe neighbors an explanation of why they remove them, they do what they want. Life is definitely too short for this much hassle over an app!

KristaSlack April 30, 2022

Dave and Kelly you both are a 100% correct. I have had a pack of hyenas attack me over

CherieMoore July 26, 2022

I just can't believe the POWER someone out there holds to bump you at any time, for any reason, never need to tell you why and for as long as you live in that area??? What??? Even criminals get released of crap, but we don't even know what happened. And when we ask someone to look into this, it's like we're starting trouble and are treated like crap. What is this? We live in CHESAPEAKE, VA. Today is 7-26-22.

Useful, but ruined by political activists, bigots and racists
March 23, 2022

I gave it 1 because there is no '0'. The site is useful but manipulated by 'effusive' leads own political views and opinions. Invariably those above them also.

Such leads will protect the 'like minded' while penalizing & shutting down facts, the truth of those trying to prove the false claims, twisted context and in my case their bald-faced lies, (of which I have copied & pasted as admissible evidence), they even shut down humour.

There is no appeal. Such protected political advocates then troll, harass and suggest to posters if they do not like it. leave the site. I will stay on;y to report them under their own Rules.

KellyR April 01, 2022

Double,

You are so right! It was just done to me. Outright lies time and time again. I asked three times for the exact wording I supposedly used to violate their so called racist, discrimination policy (aka PC policy) and instead of responding back to me with what I asked for, they sent the policy verbiage each time.

If I had actually done what I was being accused of, it should have been easy to just copy and paste the offensive wording and send it to me. Just show me what I said but they can’t, because I didn’t do anything wrong. I know how you feel and what you’re going through. It’s so frustrating! It’s not worth all this stress and time we’re allowing it to consume us.

When I asked again, I was promptly sent to the big boss to be put in my place. I sent her back an email book of my thoughts lol. I’m done with the drama!

SanFran Speech Police
March 7, 2022

Another speech police company from San Francisco Commiefornia . Some person in my neighborhood was pushing the vaccines saying they are fully FDA approved which is a complete lie.

I corrected the person saying they were approved for (EUA) Emergency use authorization. Linked the appropriate FDA.Gov page showing exactly that and was suspended few hours later. Stay away and sue them if you were injured by vaccine from their false advice.

Also, any proclaimed democrat can say any lie or insult they desire without any warning or repercussions. It's a real sewer, don't dirty yourself.

Egregious One-Way Censorship Against the Right
March 2, 2022
Nextdoor is nothing more than Facebook 2.0. Facebook now has some kind of business partnership with Nextdoor. The regularity to which Nextdoor's biased and Left leaning leads censor, silence, oppress, harass, and ban/suspend their conservative participants is beyond measure! I was just suspended for 15 days for merely saying that some of their unnamed biased leads were constantly deleting the entire posts, and/or comments of the Right. According to them, we are not allowed to disclose what is being done to us. How dare we criticize them for violating our First Amendment rights (LOL). In other words, we have no due process. Quite shocking indeed!! Someone pinch me, I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. Nextdoor has deployed the nefarious tactic of letting their unhinged Left participants troll in our private conservative groups, start a fight, and then run to their biased leads to get us deleted, and/or banned. Are we living in America still? Nextdoor obviously does not believe in the Free Speech of their Right participants. Shame on them!!!

JudithAllen March 21, 2022

Yes I noticed that. Signed up to know what was going on in own village but soon many neighborhoods connected and if you say something someone doesn't like even if it is the truth, you get censored, banned. A bunch of liberals trying to shut down anyone they deem racist or not "woke" apparently, among other things. Never mind what science says they listen to demos telling ties. It was useful at first for recommendations on companies, crime in neighborhood, accidents info. but then if you comment get blocked. I don't miss it really.

KellyR April 01, 2022

Stephen/Judith,

Yes, that’s why I gave up Facebook years ago. I feel like each of us could end up writing a book about our experiences with just Nextdoor. There are that many insane stories. The liberal mainstream media and biased posts made Facebook so boring and Nextdoor is the same way. I deleted it and never looked back. It’s time to do the same thing with Nextdoor.

I also read where Facebook and Nextdoor were affiliated and that was all I needed to know to decide to make my decision. The stress the leads put on everyone if you’re not PC correct, the snitch Bs that troll and tattle on everyone, you never know what you’re saying if someone is going to turn you in and the lead doesn’t care if it’s true or not. All he cares about is if you’re PC or if the other person is. That’s who they’re going to back, not you.

They lie and ignore your request for answers. Then they take offense if you even ask and shut you down. They think they’re above the law. They pretend like they protect or care about the users, when they actually cause people pain and stress. They’re just another app I won’t miss.

Nosy People with nothing better to do
February 16, 2022
Bunch of busybodies with nothing better to do. Some psycho with their own radar gun (because doesn't everyone have their own radar gun) is posting photos of a lady because she's going 13 miles over the speed limit, for the love.

KellyR April 01, 2022

Yep, instead of peeking out through the kitchen curtains, they’re just doing it from their computers and phones now. The only difference is, they get to snitch anonymously on others behind the curtains. It’s a PC trolls paradise!

Biased, Ignorant. Arrogant Moderation
February 8, 2022

Some of the volunteer reviewers/leads are under contract from the city to provide promotional material. They 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 propaganda and be flagged for spreading misinformation.

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.

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.

JudithAllen March 21, 2022

That's so true just like FB even if it was said on the news by doctors, they deny it. They knock you off without so much as a way to reply by why it shouldn't be. The forum no longer is of benefit to me

KellyR April 01, 2022

Brad,

Thank you for posting this message. I have been trying to figure out why Nextdoor removed me for two weeks from a recent post. Recently a neighbor posted a news article about a woman who was arrested in the alley behind his house. In the camp, they found with the woman human feces, drug paraphernalia like needles and pills, used tampons, various mail from people who lived nearby and clothing strewn all over with the feces on it. You can imagine how the conversations were but there was one bigmouth going on about how the lady had to have started that way because of her doctor. That it had to be the doctors fault and it always starts with the pain medication and how she was positive.

Anyway, she was this PC liberal going on about it wasn’t the person’s fault and she just needed help and you know the type. Everyone is telling her keep in mind this person is a thief, she stole peoples mail she didn’t care she is using capital letters and screaming at people, swearing and telling people me to mind our business. I explained to her the DNC already made so many policy changes that doctors have cutback on peoples medications that if she and others aren’t careful, they’ll end more problems for people who are on medication management plans.

A couple of days later I was cutoff the app. No explanation, none. I had to initiate the request and they didn’t reply back right away until the next day. Everytime I ask why I just keep getting the same verbiage saying, We have a strict policy against racist behavior, discrimination, and hate speech. Yet, that’s exactly what they did to me!

After reading your post, I understand now. It all makes sense to me. The person making the false claims lied as do the rest of the people who proceeds to lie continuously and when I call her on her claims, she doesn’t recognize she has been caught in a lie, she just reiterates it in a different way. Still avoiding my request to send me the exact words I used to somehow after all these years I’m going to pick this one day and unknowingly (I still don’t know what I said) and get myself kicked off. While I have been in the process of helping two homeless (oops, not allowed to say homeless)women find a place to live, they cut me off. So I have no idea what happened to those women now and one was feeling so scared we thought she was going to do something so I was frantically trying to find her help. I told this person that, but she didn’t care. This is a portion of the email. I never did find anything in the email that referenced where I said the lady was homeless but they tried to say I did “multiple” times.

This was what I received the third time I requested the wording in my post to explain why I was kicked off. She still wouldn’t send me anything. So she sent this instead.

(In your comment you refer to homeless people multiples times. We do not tolerate racism, hateful language, or discrimination of any kind. The content was found to be discriminatory because it assumed that someone was engaged in suspicious activity or criminal behavior because of their housing status.

Every neighbor should feel welcome, safe, and respected when using Nextdoor. You may respectfully challenge issues by focusing on the facts or ideas you want to communicate, without attacking or insulting others).

Oh, does she mean like the troll was doing to everyone else, that type of attacking? Because we were trying to avoid her. She was spastic and completely overreacting!

I apologize, I didn’t mean to go on and on. You are correct, the leads commonly deleted people and entire posts all the time whenever they didn’t like what people were saying, especially if it wasn’t politically correct. They say they don’t allow political comments but they do when it fits their narrative only. If someone posts something about Biden and they discuss it for as long as they want to. I know better than to say anything or I’ll get kicked off so I wait to see if any leads will do something. They don’t. But if that happened with Trump or Bush, I guarantee you, people would be kicked off for good.