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Comment by el_benhameen | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or walking my kid to school too close to someone’s driveway, and the unfathomably bad design and functionality of their mobile site has me convinced that they’d be incapable of intentionally implementing dark patterns.

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>I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or ...

And so what if you are? Not being there and put on blast affects you how? Being there and put on blast is different because? You can respond by using gasoline to put out the fire?

Nextdoor is a great place to find out who you never want to associate in real life.

I don't know the dynamics of Nextdoor, but others complaining and organizing against me would scare me.

You say this as if people are not complaining and organizing against you now. Are you sure that's not actually happening and you're just not on the same chat they are? Let that fester...

That was mostly sarcasm, but I would prefer to know if my neighbors think I’m a burglar so that I can politely let them know that I’m not.

Of course, that's what any self-respecting burglar trying to throw people off their trail would say.

Information is power, it allows you to make decisions with greater expected value on average.

What a brilliant business technique! You have to to consent or be punished for otherwise acting like a responsible human. Then they can monetize the engagement. Everybody wins!

Let's extend that. Publish any senior executive's home address to a list containing many militant communists unless they subscribe to your engagement platform themselves! High value info to monetize right there. Then do the switch because they clicked through something. Capitalism working just like we were told about as kids...

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