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A member posted bunnies for sale. I commented that I hoped they sold to responsible people because bunnies and chicks sold around Easter grew into adults that weren't cute or wanted at full age. I said chicks had a high mortality rate. The comment wasn't meant to be mean however this member called me "karen" and basically said I was stupid. I deleted my comment since it offended her. Shortly thereafter a member of her family called me "A karen" for removing my comment. Then they filed a false report that resulted in the suspension of my account for 4 days. Now I really don't mind the suspension, even if it was not warranted because of two things: First I don't need this site, Secondly this site will block people without proof. The mean spirited, lying people that post there have shown their lack of intelligence since all they can do is insult, ridicule, and falsely report people. The site that blindly bans members based on fake information is in danger of violating a persons rights, and are asking for legal retribution. As for the member filing the fake report, and engaging in slurs and name calling, she should be banned. And perhaps animal control or other state agency should be called to make sure her breeding facility is humane and up to date.

I recently posted the following: I pray that God protects and blesses Ukraine and sends his mighty and terrible wrath upon the Satanic Russian invading horde. This post was taken down by Next Door. While it was true that some responses tended to be political, that was no cause the remove the post and all of the other responses that were in solidarity with Ukraine. Removing the post makes it seem that the Next Door organization doesn't approve of references to God, or wasn't in sympathy to Ukraine, or worse was siding with Putin.

First one of my biggest complaints is content is all determined not by the neighborhood but by the algarots running it. I continually am harassed, not only for sharing my conservative opinion in a discussion, but for posting information about local neighborhood scammers/pandhandlers. Nextdoor has gotten to be a mess; no one I know goes on there anymore because it is citizens panhandling for money or photographers wanting to show their work. I went through this morning and the first four posts are all photos; birds, coyotes, pelicans, hawks etc... People use this as their personal facebook page. PLEASE put a page for photos. People rant and rave about dog poop. Their is not control over the site and I keep getting suspended simply for sharing my views such as a lady recently posting to get people to pay all her cat's medical bills... without having gone to doctor yet, not knowing how much. There is another lady who posts every year stating she had a house fire. if you are a patriot at all - you are censored! This has become a platform for people who sit home all day on their computer, trollers, liberals. God help anyone who posts otherwise. The complaints are rampant and nothing happens. You are losing "neighbors" which means no one is seeing your advertising! Forget if you lose your dog or their is imminent crime in the area, no one will see it through all the garbage! I get banned or suspended just for sharing links because it is not liberal. Not even what I said... just links or news!

NextDoor,

I am the person being defended here after speaking out against false attacks specific to the pitbull breed. In fact, where pitbulls were falsely identified as the breed that took part in an attack on another neighborhood pet. Where cries of extinguishing the breed, demands to throw their owners in jail, and where doxing of the owners took place.

On 24 February I was told my account was suspended indefinitely, and that I could come back in one year to plead my case. I am not alone in my "punishment", and this is much bigger than me. Nextdoor is supposed to represent the town square where neighbors share information and have discussions. Instead, it has become an intolerant tool for retribution for those with differing opinions. Bias runs rampant from neighbors to Leads to Corporate teams who delete comments and vanish neighbors for having a certain opinion, or defending themselves against personal attacks. The power of the 'Report' button is endless, arbitrary, and subjective to everyone involved in using and enforcing it. It is completely absent of logical reasoning.

The world has faced social isolation for more than two years, and NextDoor provided a place for actual neighbors to interact with others, form bonds and share camaraderie in a local community. A very unique construct. A neighborhood application that was supposed to bring neighbors closer together, communicate, discuss concerns, needs and opinions, provide information and help has turned into the disappearing grounds where neighbors are ghosted as if they never existed. The irony is palpable.

Your 'Be Kind' mantra has the opposite effect, and has essentially pitted whole neighborhoods against their neighbors, in fact, entire cities. It has created an environment of hostility under the false guise of kindness or preventing misinformation. It is a place of zero tolerance for many, while others have free reign. A place where the entire process is veiled in anonymity, kinship in specific ideology, and corporate rebuttals receive no response. A game of strategy used to disappear certain opinions. It is an iron fist void of common sense. Lastly, it is neither a neighborhood, a town square, place of kindness, nor a place where differences are respected and celebrated, but a place of biased suppression filled with personal glory of 'Report' button silencing of thought. As others have said - an echo chamber.

Shame.

On February 24, 2022, a Nextdoor member was banned for one year due to voicing her opinion. She was commenting on a post regarding a dog attack where the comments were calling the pit bull breed of dog dangerous, and she was defending the breed. People reported her comments and she was removed for one year. She had been reported in the past, which is why her suspension was so severe. As you’ll see below, her being reported in the past may in fact have been due to Nextdoor’s policies, not because of the content of her posts and comments.

Nextdoor has become an echo chamber. The reason it's an echo chamber is that any time a post or comment is reported for one its rules, many of which are very subjective (e.g. "Uncivil or unkind", "Goes against my beliefs, values or politics", "Misinformation" (generally, which commenters often cite from public and legitimate sources), "Supporting or promoting a hate group" (what constitutes a hate group is never defined)), are quickly reported by another user. Upon reporting, I'm told that, depending upon the complaint, either local moderators will remove a comment and/or the corporate office will "punish" the offender by suspending the user's account for a number of day, weeks, months, or permanently.

Here's the problem: By removing posts or suspending users for subjective reasons that offend another user's senses, those offended users are enabled and become, for lack of a better way of putting it, power-hungry and quick to complain, knowing that there's an excellent chance they're complaint will result in removal of the comment or suspension of the commenter. In fact, I'm nearly certain that it's a relatively small number of people in any given neighborhood area who, because they've discovered how they can affect the users on the Nextdoor platform and how responsive the moderators are to their complaints, are setting the "tone" and "narrative" for thousands of other users in any given neighborhood area. It's the Nextdoor equivalent of those who seek the greatest number of "Likes" on Facebook or "Retweets" on Twitter.

I've read recently that Nextdoor is engaging in a campaign to increase the amount of "kindness" on its platform. I would submit that "kindness" is in and of itself very subjective, and is only "kind" to those who share the same opinions as the small group of complainers whom Nextdoor is enabling. Essentially, Nextdoor, due to its reporting policies, is creating an atmosphere of groupthink, which is anything but kind.

Desired outcome: I'd appreciate a response to this complaint. I'd also like ND to visit its reporting policy. Aside from removing the subjective reasons a user can complain, I'd also like to see the number of complaints any user can register limited, perhaps to one complaint per month. Those who are "habitual complainers" will be forced to be very selective in which other neighbors they choose to report, and they will quickly learn that they always have the option of either exercising tolerance for their neighbor's opinions or skipping over any comments or topics they may not agree with. This, to me, is a far kinder solution than simply silencing other users.

On February 24, 2022, a Nextdoor member was banned for one year due to voicing her opinion. She was commenting on a post regarding a dog attack where the comments were calling the pit bull breed of dog dangerous, and she was defending the breed. People reported her comments and she was removed for one year. She had been reported in the past, which is why her suspension was so severe. As you’ll see below, her being reported in the past may in fact have been due to Nextdoor’s policies, not because of the content of her posts and comments.

Nextdoor has become an echo chamber. The reason it's an echo chamber is that any time a post or comment is reported for one its rules, many of which are very subjective (e.g. "Uncivil or unkind", "Goes against my beliefs, values or politics", "Misinformation" (generally, which commenters often cite from public and legitimate sources), "Supporting or promoting a hate group" (what constitutes a hate group is never defined)), are quickly reported by another user. Upon reporting, I'm told that, depending upon the complaint, either local moderators will remove a comment and/or the corporate office will "punish" the offender by suspending the user's account for a number of day, weeks, months, or permanently.

Here's the problem: By removing posts or suspending users for subjective reasons that offend another user's senses, those offended users are enabled and become, for lack of a better way of putting it, power-hungry and quick to complain, knowing that there's an excellent chance they're complaint will result in removal of the comment or suspension of the commenter. In fact, I'm nearly certain that it's a relatively small number of people in any given neighborhood area who, because they've discovered how they can affect the users on the Nextdoor platform and how responsive the moderators are to their complaints, are setting the "tone" and "narrative" for thousands of other users in any given neighborhood area. It's the Nextdoor equivalent of those who seek the greatest number of "Likes" on Facebook or "Retweets" on Twitter.

I've read recently that Nextdoor is engaging in a campaign to increase the amount of "kindness" on its platform. I would submit that "kindness" is in and of itself very subjective, and is only "kind" to those who share the same opinions as the small group of complainers whom Nextdoor is enabling. Essentially, Nextdoor, due to its reporting policies, is creating an atmosphere of groupthink, which is anything but kind.

I'd like ND to visit its reporting policy. Aside from removing the subjective reasons a user can complain, I'd also like to see the number of complaints any user can register limited, perhaps to one complaint per month. Those who are "habitual complainers" will be forced to be very selective in which other neighbors they choose to report, and they will quickly learn that they always have the option of either exercising tolerance for their neighbor's opinions or skipping over any comments or topics they may not agree with. This, to me, is a far kinder solution than simply silencing other users.

I was banned from nextdoor indefinably for voicing my own opinion. They say misinformation. I ask what specifically was misinformation and the refuse to tell me. How can you defend yourself it it is one sided? I said in a comment to someone else that posted about Kids getting the vaccine that I felt it was child abuse and that a kids immune system was much better than the jab. This has been also stated by leading doctors and virologist! This is a well known fact. I also said I pray that they get what is coming to them. My opinion and stand on it. They can take it or leave it. I have the right to state it.

On January 20, 2022, my account was disabled for 30 days because I posted an article from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nextdoor said it violated their guidelines against misinformation. This is the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788172

It said that most reported adverse vaccine effects were due to a placebo effect.

I wrote to Nextdoor and pointed out that the article was debunking misinformation about vaccines, and they simply repeated their baseless assertion that "the ... content could discourage other's [sic] from getting the vaccines."

I hired a "handyman" from Dream Catcher Homes - his name is George. I retained his name from Home Advisors/Angie's. The jobs I needed done around my home were minimal: painting one side of a wooden fence white . . and I provided the paint, putting a small latch on a screen door (he had an extra in his van), screwing a safety bar into my tub area (I provided the bar). He quoted $200.00 which I thought was quite reasonable. When he was through for the day and said he would put another coat on my fence in the next few days, he never returned! He charged me $375.00! The assumption (my mistake), was that he was coming back to give the fence another coat. He always had one excuse after another for not being able to come back to finish up. With any service job the individual should present himself neatly and professionally. The bottom line is: Do NOT hire this man for any jobs you want done efficiently and correctly . . . he is not to be trusted! Another important lesson to learn: Do NOT pay until the job is complete . . I have learned a valuable lesson!

Twice I've been banned, this time for 30 days. No proof of accusations on Nextdoor's end. They give certain people too much power to get opposing views banned. They seem to be at war with logic. And it's always one particular political persuasion who is exercising this power. Blatant abuse of power, especially when it comes to the pandemic. If they can't prove you wrong, they just have you banned, just like Twitter, YouTube and all the other agenda driven social media sites.

I was suspended for 3 days for "misinformation". I merely posted an article of something true & accurate. After that suspension I have had my account permanently deactivated. I joined a closed covid discussion group in which I thought I could freely post and discuss information.

Well someone once again turned me in and my account was deactivated indefinitely. How is this OK? What happened to having a debate. OR how about letting adults read information & make up their own minds.

This site has become a kindergarten for adults, when someone doesnt like something that goes against the narrative they turn you in.

I reached out several times to ask to please reinstate my account as I honestly didnt know it was against guidelines to post info on a covid closed group. NO reply.

I am a disabled Veteran and moved to a new area where this site has its usefulness. I also use the site to help others in need.

NextDoor is a hotbed of Social Justice Warriors who bully anyone who has a conservative thought or does not go along with Leftist narritive, and they will gang up on you, report you for any absurd reason to have you suspended = silenced. They can be as snarky as they want, but if you respond in any way they will find a way to report you. If they say something hateful, and you repeat their words to ask for clarification, they will report that YOU said something hateful and USE THEIR WORDS AS PROOF OF YOUR HATE SPEECH! The people from corporate don't care if you are being thoughtful or decent or providing facts. They hide behind, "You were reported by several of your neighbors." Yeah, because those SJWs have ganged together to report you! It's really not worth the aggravation. If I wasn't the admin of a private group I would close my account and never look back as this worst of the worst example of pathetic human behavior.

They are a bunch of brown shirts. They create divisiveness and do not allow for the truth/facts to be addressed unless it's approved by radical left wing progressives. If you post something from a reliable source, they will temporarily deactivate (time out) your account for a few days/week/months/even a year, then you have to beg and comply with their terms/guidelines otherwise you can't get back on. If you're selling something, you're SOL if some liberal tattletail gets their pwecious wittwe feewings hurt. Helpful? no. destructive? yes. divisive? yes. Biased? yes. Don't waste your time trying to inform/help others with cold hard facts because it's a no-go. I never realized just how nasty/ugly liberals are until I got on NaziDoor.

PM's are being removed by 1 staff member named John Cobarruvias LEAD in Houston, Tx, if anything is said to him that he doesn't like or agree with. I recently started a discussion about this when one of my PM's was removed, was discussing it with a friend via PM's, discussion lasted 1 1/2 days until I said something John Cobarruvias didn't agree with, discussion was removed and 17 PM's removed in my inbox. PM's aren't private

John Cobarruvias is acting like a tyrant and bullying people who don't share his views

He also said this to 1 member

"John Cobarruvias
Delete your account already. No one is interested in your opinions.

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"Mary Smith" (not real name, removed to protect her from possible retaliation by John Cobarruvias, it's happened before
John maybe take your own advice, not many would miss you ?

The other 3 replies were deleted by him

Well I have been suspended by Nextdoor 6 times now. Because if you a Christian or a conservative they automatically hate you. But the mean liberals who are on the left are allowed full free range plus hate speech on who ever they choose. They say that I can Pray for people & tell me that I can Pray for people but then when I actually do I am suspended. They also say that I can mention God but then later change their mind & go back on their words. It sounds like a setup and or Trap for me. Its either ND doesn't have a clear understanding of their own policies or they are just making them up as they go along to what ever fits their agenda! I would guess that it is the Latter & they truly are just tossing Crap at the wall to see what sticks!

They tell me that I can Pray for people and that I can say that I'm going to pray for them, But then they say that I can't. I would call that MisInformation Sandra R, Mentioned God in her comment so I was just agreeing with her in my comment. Terry S, We are in end times & I agreed with him by saying that's why we need to get right with God. Any smart person knows what end times mean. Frank L, Said we need to Pray & I agreed and said if we do Pray they should be powerful prayers. I get suspended for speaking the Good News & The Truth.

https://www.complaintsboard.com/nextdoor-ive-been-suspended-by-nd-5-times-now-c1330348

So according to ND own standards how was anything that I posted against Local & National Politics/Issues? So what you told me I was suspended for, doesn't even make sense according to your own policies? I was suspended for religion #3 not #1

One thing I noticed while scrolling through the complaints about Nextdoor. There seems to be a misinformation campaign going on, directed from Nextdoor HQ. Random people (who have recently joined and have little or no post history) are posting threads about "please pray for my family we are so sick with Covid" etc. Other posts contain things like "my husband/wife/son/daughter just died from Covid" etc. The original poster seldom, if ever replies to anyone responding to these posts. I've seen these posts in our area, and had a good feeling that it was all bull Crap at least three weeks ago, I also brought it up in the group. It's interesting that users are not allowed to post "misinformation" on Nextdoor, but Nextdoor can direct their own misinformation campaign.

https://www.complaintsboard.com/nextdoor-ive-been-suspended-by-nd-5-times-now-c1330348 https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/the-communist-next-door?embedded_webview=true

I was not notified I had my account locked. I realized I had received no NextDoor notifications, clicked on the app, and found my account has been disabled. No explanation for what post I was "disciplined", nor any option for inquiry. The only option offered is to promise to follow guidelines, ...or else. Really?

I have been kicked off next door so many times because people report me for disagreeing with them about whether masks work or not and whether the vaccine works or not. There are many scientists who agree with the statements I've made and I post their articles too but those get deleted. The people who have reported me have written comments to me that are insulting but they don't get kicked off. They know they're not going to get kicked off even though they've been reported, which only encourages them to continue the uncivil dialogue. It seems on nextdoor you can only post things that go with a certain political narrative.

The moderators delete comments from neighbors who disagree or question their points of view.
Neighbors are bullied, called names, and even canceled just because they are postings their opinions like everybody else.
If Next Door is a one way stream social media, should be advertised as that.
Next Doir is becoming more and more a plataforma where free speech is suppressed just for a group of people that claim to have truth and be better than anybody else.

I've been deactivated on Nextdoor AGAIN. Why? Because I posted this praising their actions:

Got this nice note from Nextdoor. It is good to know that they fix what is wrong when needed:

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back to me.

The reported content was posted in Safety;

Subject: PERSONAL PROTECTION DEVICES.

Body: Whether you choose a personal alarm, pepper spray, stun gun, firearm, or other device, know the laws and regulations regarding the use of these items. Seek proper training and become thoroughly familiar with your defensive device. Personal safety begins with awareness, education, and prevention.

When reviewing the report made against your account, the content was not taken within full context and so the Support agent who was reviewing it restricted your account incorrectly. Upon further review of your account, we found this to be in error and have thus reinstated your account. We also address issues like this individually with our team to prevent mistakes like this from happening again.

As in all things reviewed by a person, there can be an element of human error. We strive to limit these occurrences as best we can.

Appreciate your understanding.

Best,

Amber
Nextdoor

Nextdoor had suspended me previously for Conservative comments for 2 days as kind of a hand slap and this time for 30 THIRTY DAYS which is totally ridiculous. If we are going to have political threads then truly ALL comments should be allowed, or this is a censored website.
30 THIRTY DAYS SUSPENSION IS RIDICULOUS
This is a constitutional violation

Thank you
Kelly Spence
Coral (beachside)
Vero Beach Nextdoor