We’re lucky to still have few large and small newspapers in the area that are relatively decent. Facebook groups and next door fill in the rest.
I do find it mildly ironic that TFA is also fear-based. Will they never learn?
It's local, it's unfiltered, but… I wonder about the long term effect it will have on my estimation of my neighbors. Checking any more than once or twice a month is probably not doing anyone any favors.
It might go without saying that I'm slightly even less impressed with Next Door than when I wrote the original comment, but it does make me think: is this product bad because of the people it attracts? Is that its fault, i.e. could it be targeted better or formatted better (think Stack Overflow vs web forums)? How could the problem be solved in a less obnoxious way?