[koolba]

Small town papers had letters to the editor that could get quite colorful but there was a modicum of class on the part of most editors not to publish to the truly disgusting. Nextdoor style discussion were previously relegated to inner social circles after dropping your kids off at soccer.

[ke7in]

It feels like NextDoor is late to the moderation party. As Facebook and Twitter are finding themselves somewhat responsible for what users spew, NextDoor will see the actions like those called out by the top commenter happen much quicker.

[HarryHirsch]

Someone might have feet ashamed to type up stuff that you don't really say and send it to the local paper, when you meet someone working there at church every Sunday. But everyone knows that Facebook moderation is outsourced to the Philippines, so it doesn't matter what you say, and if you use thr right whistle-words it might just slip past the <insert ethnic slur> in a faraway low-wage country.

[asciident]

So I find NextDoor to simply have a different culture. If they saw the comments on Hacker News or Reddit, they would probably similarly call it toxic and that its users assumes the worst of others. When I read NextDoor posts, I put on my NextDoor glasses, and when I read Hacker News posts, I put on Hacker News glasses.

They have a different set of values, and are offended by different things. Calling out a person they find suspicious (who ends up not being suspicious) would get some eyerolling but not considered deeply offensive there, the same way that some antisocial behaviors here are not immediately banworthy.