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What's the drama on your local NextDoor site?

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GiantFannyMuffin · 09/11/2023 11:25

A 17-year old woman has just joined my local site and started a hashtag in support of her 16-year old friend who's been suspended for violating the rules on respect. There is much talk of his suspension being an issue of human rights infringements and threats to free speech.

The 16-year old who's been suspended is a prolific poster and, unsurprisingly, isn't after recommendations for plumbers or support with a lost cat. He posts utter nonsense and creates completely random feuds with people - he seems to have particular beef with a chap called Geoff for no reason I can discern at all.

As an example of why he's been suspended: In a thread about noisy neighbours, he posted that he'd only have sympathy for the OP if her baby had died.

So there's that.

What's happening on your local ND site right about now?

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christmassausages · 09/11/2023 11:29

I have all the multitude of emails it sends every single day going to a junk folder. I have no idea how to stop them. I've followed the instruction on unsubscribing but still they come. So, in short, I have no idea what is happening on my nextdoor site and just wish I had never signed I to it in tge first place.

IvorTheEngineDriver · 09/11/2023 11:35

I have never heard of this and on the basis of just 2 posts, I intend to stay well away from it.

Nagado · 09/11/2023 12:22

The closest we’ve got is a FB page for our town and there’s nothing as interesting as 16 year olds having feuds.

The most controversial thing on there at the moment is a woman announcing that before anyone spends large sums of money on presents etc, they should spare a thought for those people who can’t spend anything, and that the important thing is to be with your loved ones. Responses are split between people telling her how wise she is, people telling her to mind her own business and they’ll spend what they like on their DC and someone accusing her of having a hidden agenda (which he’s a bit vague about, but seems to be an accusation of virtue signalling).

PeanutAndBanana · 09/11/2023 12:25

I also can't figure out how to unsubscribe. Ours is all XL Bully sightings (not hard, we are overrun with them) and car thefts. Which - to be fair - sums up the area.

HamsterBanana · 09/11/2023 12:28

There's this crazy woman who keeps posting daily bad reviews of a CCTV company around here, despite the company taking her to court last year for slander and winning.
The CCTV guy and this crazy woman go on like cat and dog every day.. it's quite amusing.

Hickry · 09/11/2023 12:32

Mine is a poster who posts at least once every single day, with photo "updates" about his dogs litter of adorable puppies. 😡 He's CLEARLY advertising them to sell. And relentlessly so. Anyone who comments as such he laughs. The posts get deleted, he posts again. Why he hasn't been banned I don't know. 🙄

We also have a lady posting wanting her kitchen deep cleaned for £50. She thinks it will take about five hours. She won't share photos. She won't discuss what actually needs doing. She won't admit she's not offering enough pay or clarity. She just posts regularly that she STILL hasn't found anyone, how people are happy to "turn down money" despite having lots of time on their hands (to explain to her why no one is keen). It's cringe worthy.

NotFastButFurious · 09/11/2023 12:34

oh there's never anything particularly exciting on ours and most of the members don't seem to have quite worked out how to actually use it! People post things that were clearly meant to be comments on a post as a new post and it hence they don't make any sense!
We have a lot of "lost cats" (it's a cat, it appear well kept and fed and being a cat they tend to roam into other gardens), people looking for cash in hand jobs which inevitably ends up in a lecture about paying tax like everyone else, and a guy who's taken it upon himself to post a photo of various landmarks around the city with the comment "guess where this is / does anyone know where this is" (think the equivalent of a photo of buckingham palace on the London forum!!). The latest recruit seems to be "Fire Stick Frank", i've no idea what his aim is but he posts daily and includes his email address. I think I'd rather Frank didn't show me his fire stick tbh.

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GiantFannyMuffin · 09/11/2023 12:46

@Nagado The fun part is that it's not 16-year olds having feuds with each other, it's one insane 16-year old picking feuds with 50/60/70-something men and women who're roaming around ND talking about litter, plumbers, lost cats, traffic, bus timetables etc. It's madness.

I love all these stories - it's amazing how ND and FB are like a magnet for these nutjobs. Who are these people in real-life? I'd love to bump into one of the people from ND in the actual wild.

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Bluevelvetsofa · 09/11/2023 13:19

The floods.
Is the road open?
Can I get from A to B?
Is the tip open because the roads are closed?
Why are there roadworks on every route out of the village?

VeridicalVagabond · 09/11/2023 13:29

I'm in Wales so it's all arguing about the 20mph speed limit and slagging off Mark Drakeford

Seeline · 09/11/2023 13:34

Which ulez cameras have been broken/removed/had a bag put over them
'lost' cats that aren't lost, just happen to be in someone else's garden
Where the white Audi that breaks into work vans and steals tools has last been spotted
Blurry footage from ring doorbells of 'suspicious' people who happen to be walking down the road.

Kta7 · 09/11/2023 13:37

Engineering works on the district line this weekend are a conspiracy on the part of TfL to stop people attending remembrance services (with a tangent about what people should do at on Sat 11/11 at 11am or indeed 11.11am as some seem to think).

Also lots of dreadful jokes.

Zimunya · 09/11/2023 13:38

@NotFastButFurious - Your comments re Fire Stick Frank have given me a proper laugh out loud moment! Thank you.

PepeLePugh · 09/11/2023 13:41

We had a guy posting about the local tip not allowing him to dump garden waste as they unfairly thought he was a business. The guy thought it was outrageous and was complaining on Nextdoor...

...yet if you clicked on his Nextdoor profile, he was advertising his garden waste removal services.

spiderlight · 09/11/2023 13:43

Ours is a fairly even split between people ranting about the refuse collectors' strike and people ranting about the 20 mph speed limit.

PinkPantherPrat · 09/11/2023 13:50

We had a bit of a pervert on ours - I think he mistook it for a dating site!

Aside from that, lots of muttering about the Council

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 09/11/2023 13:53

My group is quite heartwarming, often, in Toronto. For example, the last year or so an older woman joined our neighbourhood group though she lives many hours away. Her adult son has schizophrenia, had hopped on a train, and was now living on the streets locally to us. She rallied the neighbours so that an eye was kept on him. People would give him food, changes of clothes, a winter coat, a hot drink, $20 here or there, very regularly. Eventually, with the help of our local MP, she managed to get him sectioned and brought home to receive proper care. But she credits the group with keeping her son in decent physical health through a tough winter.

MateyBubbleBathlover · 09/11/2023 13:54

I also had difficulty in unsubscribing so have deleted my entire account instead. which sorted the problem

hope that helps anyone who is desperate to get rid of those annoying emails!!

PinkPantherPrat · 09/11/2023 13:57

@UpToMyElbowsInDiapers that's brilliant, people can be so kind sometimes.

Glad he's receiving proper care and is safe.

Yawmf · 09/11/2023 13:59

On next door and the local Facebook group where I went to uni but stayed a member of, is someone posting a photo taken by a delivery driver of where their parcel was left and accusing the homeowner of being a thief as they haven't brought the parcel rouglnd to poster and they don't know where it is. The parcel is two pieces of flat packed furniture, the person on the photo looks like a small woman, there are toys on the floor in the photo. So rather than the homeowner being a thief, she's probably a kind neighbour who has taken in a parcel but doesn't want to leave her children alone while she carts two heavy pieces of flat packed furniture around, if she's even physically capable. And as the poster wasn't in when the parcel company called maybe she's worried she will carry the parcels round and they'll still be out. She has also probably assumed the parcel company have left a card telling the poster where their stuff is and they'll collect it when they're home and is annoyed there's big boxes cluttering up her house. But the comments are calling her a chav, a layabout, benefits cheat, scrounger, her house looks like it stinks, call the police, find her and sort her out etc. I don't know what is wrong with people it's awful.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 09/11/2023 13:59

Blurry footage from ring doorbells of 'suspicious' people who happen to be walking down the road.

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Good yes so many of these. And they are always about 1 minute long where nothing happens for the first 55 seconds then the random "suspicious " random strolls past

We also have the person who posts shit memes every day and the person who thinks it's hilarious (generally a man) to post non pc jokes

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 09/11/2023 14:01

I think I need another random in that post

Frequency · 09/11/2023 14:05

People pinching other people's cats, mostly. Every day at least one picture of a perfectly healthy-looking cat is posted as a "found this stray in my garden. Anyone missing him?" followed by a slew of comments ranging from cats should be kept indoors to take it to a vet and phone the RSPCA/999 it looks neglected and everything in between.

We do also get a lot of people wanting to find new homes for their free white goods and/or raising funds/looking for donations of furniture/food for families just starting out after being homeless/fleeing abuse etc, which is nice.

Apossum · 09/11/2023 14:24

Not next door but my local Facebook page; loose cows on the road (again), endless ‘who’s is this cat?’ accompanying photo looks like it was taken on a potato while in a monsoon, a blow-in whinging about being held up by tractors whilst simultaneously complaining that said tractors drive far too fast, someone asking for wallpaper stripping tips cue the jokers…

BerthaFlapjack · 09/11/2023 14:27

I unsubscribed from Next Door ages ago. The local fb page provides quite enough entertainment.

Last week it was all about how loud the fireworks were going to be. Heated exchanges between dog owners and supporters of the charity raising money by holding the fireworks.

This week it is all about how loud the fireworks were. Heated exchanges have carried on merrily. Spelling and grammar have deteriorated noticeably as the saga unfolds.

Also the roadworks for the new housing development, the 20 mph signs, lost cats and found cats (usually matched up very quickly) and grumbles about the town centre Christmas lights by people who never get off their backsides and join the organising committee.

People needing tradespeople urgently including one offering to give them a shout out on the page in lieu of payment. Unsurprisingly they didn't have any success with that 😂

Oh, and someone berating every resident who has the temerity to go out without a poppy stuck on their front this week.

I love the utter bonkerness of it all, as well as the moments of true kindness and compassion.

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