A local political sign battle is creating WW3 on our Next Door!

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://wlos.com/amp/news/local/henderson-county-sign-battle-mixes-business-politics

My wife and I enjoy looking at the 2 great pro Dem signs we've noted. But...wow...all of the local repubs are freaking out, as spilled over into our Next Door app.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. The Next Door app is a joke. I was briefly on it for probably no more than a day, and it literally

turned into a site for people to use as a sounding board to address their blown out of proportion gripes, grievances, basically anything that ticked them off. Worthless.

This wasn't constructive one bit and it was a total waste of my time to have to shift through the stupid and ignorant comments re. non neighborhood stuff, etc. If I were you, don't sign up for it, unless they decide to get online monitors, which I don't think they will.

I got really tired of Next Door real quick, and got rid of in under a day (a record time for any app for me). What a waste of time. I kind of wondered what it was going to be like (Next Door app), and found out pretty quickly (but I have to be honest, I truly thought it might be a good thing for the neighborhood...NOPE! This is just like the in person neighborhood meetings that you go to, where 1 or 2 people hog the conversation and/or drone on and on and on. Kind of a shame that these people will ruin any discourse available to the rest of us for the sake of their 'opinions'.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. It depends where you are

In my area (Southwest Denver), Nextdoor is generally polite and useful.

[Hortensis]

4. Same for our two neighborhoods in GA and FL. It's great, in fact.

Both neighborhoods are predominantly strongly conservative, yet discussions that head off into touchy areas, such as masks, have remained courteous. (And in both neighborhoods, very solid majorities support mask wearing.)

SWB, your neighborhood or visits may have had bad luck with a few who were never housetrained and not enough others of good sense to stabilize your forum. But it's also likely that, in spite of the goings on you saw, others are still reporting and finding lost pets, trading services, showing off their needlework, and signing up to help neighbors who need it.

Lol, it does sound as if it's not your sort of thing in any case.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. And I'm in the city of STL MO. It was a revelation to me, to see all of the critters come out of

the woodwork. Funny, you never see or hear from them otherwise.

That's good for you that Next Door is working like it should for you. I really was anticipating the app and awaiting helpful tips, etc. that would come about as a result of Next Door, instead it turned out to be a total bust for me. Really disappointing. Maybe 1 in 50 remarks was helpful to the neighborhood, the rest was a gripe fest.

Take care!

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Same in NJ. Political shit gets the ban hammer. Good for getting cheap/free stuff or dumping stuff.

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Perhaps the mods there are Cons and let that shit fly.

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[abqtommy]

3. There's plenty for the reTHUG freaks to freak out over. I remember the toga party scene in the

movie Animal House where everyone got down on the floor and thrashed about... now that's a freak out!

[Celerity]

8. ...

[blm]

6. Repubs can't take a teaspoon of what they serve by the gallons

Always

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. THIS was my first thought

[blm]

11. And we love seeing these signs in Hendo.

[Hortensis]

10. Sounds interesting and alarming. I hope the troublemakers

calm down before serious damage is done to your neighborhood. It's supposed, of course, to be a way of creating living neighborhoods with their own identities out of comparative social deserts.

I just looked at NextDoor, and neighborhood administrators can remove troublesome posts, and worst case, troublemakers themselves.

https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/moderation-of-groups?language=en_US