And I have NEVER EVER seen in the posts what you are implying!

maybe they get scrubbed but I don't see highly political messages.

As I understand it the app is highly local - you are seeing posts by neighbors. It's also somewhat anonymized in that your address isn't entirely spelled out

From what she tells me, there appear to be just a few highly active people in the local Next Door group who actively scrub posts they disagree with. For a while she couldn't figure out why posts disappeared. Then she stumbled across them in the Classified section. As she explains it, apparently anybody can move things and Classified is like an unsearchable black hole, so a handful of people are trying to keep their online neighborhood "pure" by hiding anything that deviates from the view through their tangerine-colored glasses

And anonymous means there is no record she can find of who moves things, and no way to stop it from being abused

We do not use this app. After the neighbor showed use the App the other day,holy cow,couple of Tea Baggers were hyper active,making all kinds of false accusations about other neighbo
People spending to damn much time watching Fake Noise creates ugly neighbors.

It does seem like it could be useful, but people will probably screw it up.

sidewalk issues, roadway dangers and who should be responsible for them. We do have our share of dog poop discussions.

I have never responded to any messages but I have made donations based on some things that were posted.

Mostly I just read it to laugh at who cares about what.

You're right. It feels good. DU is the only social media site I frequent now days. You all usually don't bother me too much.

or racists
very useful

we pretty much keep to ourselves anyway (except when my garden speaking gets me "out there" - which always seems to be fine)

it is full of magats. Even the person who "runs" is a magat.

And they love to complain about everything, especially the USPS.

I tried addressing some of the comments and I was called many a bad word. Won't stop me though.

wouldn't take my address LOL

and the one time a member posted something Republican they were shut down immediately by several different posters before the thread was removed.

Politically-tinged comments are pretty rare. Most griping is about new bicycle lanes that clog up car traffic and the cops not seeming to care much about car break-ins. And coyotes.

Seems to me that most of the posts are Lost or Found dogs. Or people looking for or offering services. (Lawn up keep, housekeepers, repairs. Etc.) This morning there were several people reporting what they thought was a gunshot. My husband heard it (5:30 a.m.) and thought it sounded like an 18 Wheeler tire blowing out on the interstate.....not too many blocks away.

Don’t recall any political posts. I am in NW FL.....very, very red part of the state and crawling with trumpies.