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by barney54 1965 days ago
I came to say the same thing. NextDoor is toxic. In our neighbor we had the same sort of issue with a mentally-challenged teenager. He likely stole someone’s election sign and the neighborhood flipped out. Zero love. Zero compassion for a mentally challenged boy.
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Is this an attribute of the platform or an attribute of neighbourhoods without community?
The nastiness is an attribute of the neighborhood, amplified by the platform.
These platforms amplify things way too much. Before you would have simply complained to your family and friends but now you can start a suburb wide witch hunt on someone trivially.