I feel like this is the problem with anything neighborhood-related--people only comment when they have something to complain about. My mom spends too much time on Next Door or whatever it is, and she thinks her neighborhood is SO much worse than it actually is. It's criminal.
I feel like this is the problem with anything neighborhood-related--people only comment when they have something to complain about. My mom spends too much time on Next Door or whatever it is, and she thinks her neighborhood is SO much worse than it actually is. It's criminal.
Vermont has a home-grown, non-profit alternative to Nextdoor called Front Porch Forum, and it's amazing. We use it for...building community! and I forget not everyone has it. A key feature is it has human moderators.
Coming to say just this! Front Porch Forum is so helpful in that you only get one or two emails a day, which is enough to keep you informed but not the kind of thing you can get sucked into or waste time on.
I feel like this is the problem with anything neighborhood-related--people only comment when they have something to complain about. My mom spends too much time on Next Door or whatever it is, and she thinks her neighborhood is SO much worse than it actually is. It's criminal.
Vermont has a home-grown, non-profit alternative to Nextdoor called Front Porch Forum, and it's amazing. We use it for...building community! and I forget not everyone has it. A key feature is it has human moderators.
Coming to say just this! Front Porch Forum is so helpful in that you only get one or two emails a day, which is enough to keep you informed but not the kind of thing you can get sucked into or waste time on.
And to make it worse, add a dash of Ring doorbell surveillance state paranoia.