It's no secret that NextDoor censors speech they don't like. Not by how it's said, but actually by what is said. Over the weekend, a large thread discussing the recent purchase of $22M of Legacy Lands by the City- exceeding expense projections by almost 500% and paying on average, a 700% premium over appraised value- has mysteriously disappeared.
Thanks to a good neighbor who was able to screenshot the entire conversation prior to its deletion, we can now attempt to figure out what is it about this particular post that caused it to be "unacceptable" while other posts that deal with local politics remain. I have sent this screenshot with the same question to NextDoor Support in California, but have not received a response.
Notice that a single "Neighbor" appears in almost every thread that is deleted or causes someone to be suspended for speaking their mind.
Imagine the frustration of being someone who spent an hour or more penning an opinion and/or response to the post, only to have your words wiped out and deleted forever by the complaint of a single gaslighter. Would you continue to post there? Would you just give up altogether when you realized the fix was in? Would you scratch your head and wonder if there was any depth they wouldn't stoop to in order to make sure your opinion was not heard or circulated?
Or would you fight back, by calling it exactly what it is?
Killing the messenger will NEVER silence the message.
Still no answers. To the simple questions that started ALL of this.
Why was the Legacy Lands program promised to us in 2018 for a net tax bill of $1.5M, but then delivered to us this Spring for $22M?
Why did all of the different parcels of land suddenly see 700% increases in appraised value AFTER we had begun negotiating for them?
And why did we borrow bond money and sign promissory notes to pay for them DURING pandemic shutdown?
The questions cannot be more clear. Can ANYONE respond in any logical way?
#crickets
It's a fundamental flaw with nextdoor. It's not a place to speak to your neighbors, it's an advertising platform and a way to sell hyper local data to complete consumer profiles. Remember that in most cases, if you don't pay for a service, then YOU are the product being sold. The nextdoor terms of service ("community guidelines") literally say it's a violation to disagree in public.
So if you say your favorite milkshake at K&M Drive-thru is Strawberry, and I say, "I like strawberry, but chocolate is their best milkshake by far" I can be (and have been) banned if someone knows the right buttons to push.
Serves me right I guess.
Here is a deleted thread in which Neighbors hijack a roundabout thread, demanding to know exactly who is behind the Watch Camas website. Of course, they never actually make a single rebuttal of anything written by Watch Camas, but instead attack the messenger or anyone who attempts to defend the message. This thread was immediately deleted too. Notice the names of the usual suspects involved. It is important to note that most every participant defending Watch Camas as simply another media outlet to consider- is now currently banned from NextDoor. It's no accident.
The latest $800K roundabout consultant contract passed during COVID shutdown included an interesting addition regarding NextDoor monitoring and social media platform management. It is called Sub-Task 13.5. PBS is the consultant.
It is no coincidence that not a single discussion about the many municipal issues exposed in Watch Camas articles is allowed to exist in NextDoor. And most of the posters and commenters that attempt to discuss those issues are summarily banned and deleted almost instantaneously.
Well I was banned AGAIN! I bet you can all guess who was in the thread!! I’ve never seen anything like this. I didn’t even say anything that violated community standards!
I have now been suspended from The Peoples Republic of NextDoor for making this post. No kidding. It appears I will soon be sent to the banished room for re-education.
Thank you to Watch Camas for providing a place for neighbors to share relevant information without censoring.
They don't seem to like adults talking about difficult realities over there. Don't know how the "neighborhood app" expects to keep neighborhoods together if they can't assemble and talk about things impacting their community.
Hopefully other small towns aren't experiencing this problem as bad as we are. If they are, hopefully they all have their own Watch Camas style website to safely discuss the things that matter.
The count was up over 5,000 hours of neighbors suspended from their access to nextdoor last I checked the tracking page. watchcamas.com/urgent