[ravenstine]

For me, Nextdoor is primarily people looking for lost pets, complaining about "suspicious" strangers, and making dubious crime reports. That's hardly a replacement for a local newspaper.

[whateveracct]

don't forget about every loud sound being "gunshots??"

[smogcutter]

Hah, I honestly believe you should have to pass a test distinguishing the sounds of gunshots, fireworks, and trucks backfiring before you’re allowed to post on nextdoor.

[alamortsubite]

The feed in my neighborhood might be a little different, but I think you forgot to mention real estate listings and ads for surveillance cameras.

[drdeadringer]

> ads for surveillance cameras

How much of that advertisement is based off of "Paranoid Paige" with too much time on their hands?

Not to necessarily rail against using metrics, but metrics can be tilted -- if everyone's Paranoid Paige, how deep and legit is that gold mine?

[Rapzid]

In my city for a while there it was 3-4x as many people reporting *found* pets compared to lost pets; "Dang people, stop discarding your pets."

Probably the hot topic these days is lawn/porch theft.

[cosmodisk]

>lawn/porch theft

What's that? People steal the actual lawn or things off the porch?

[drdeadringer]

This is the best and most generous description of NextDoor I have found so far.