Having your user registration broken when you get a positive article published about your service must really suck.
EDIT: Seems to be a chrome issue. Submitted a request to their support time. Safari seems to work just fine.
This seems incredibly intrusive and a big privacy ingress. No thanks.
This is actually a HUGE piece of what makes the social network special. This builds inherent trust into the network so you actually know that the people that you're talking to are actually who they say they are and actually live in your neighborhood.
This means that, if you're selling your couch, or buying something from a neighbor, you can be sure that it's trusted neighbor that you're interacting with.
This actually HELPS privacy rather than impeding it.
Nextdoor also cross references with sex offender databases as well as "some" criminal databases so that they are banned from joining. It's also a safety feature.
Ugh. Those things increase recidivism and violate fundamental concepts of justice by not allowing people to ever 'serve their debt to society'. If I can pass someone by on the sidewalk or walk by their house, I don't see why they should be banned from talking to me on such a network.
If they're released, it generally implies they no longer pose a threat, and are monitored if not the case.
http://www.businessinsider.com/surprising-things-that-could-...
>Assuming those people are actual, proven, and unanimously agreed upon sex offenders
How do you prove this to the computer? Have a representative manually handle every case with a sex offender to see if someone is too perverted to join their network? Surely that's a PR nightmare. "Well he had sex with a 17 year old girl, so we're fine with him joining. But a 10 year old boy, that's where we draw the line."
The list of sex offenders is more than just a list of child molesters. Public urination or indecency and anything in between goes on there. All of them are bad to a certain degree, some of them terrible. But if someone has served their time, we should not continue punishing them, but give them a chance to reform.
The thing that bothered me is that I had no indication as to the value prior to signing up. I had no way to know whether my neighborhood had active, thriving, productive discussions or whether it was a ghost town. I had no way to know if it was healthy or full of gossip. This is the down side to it being private.
It was tough because our area is fairly low density and they require a minimum number of households to set up a neighborhood. I didn't want to include a couple of developments where they really weren't in the same demographic as the neighborhood I was setting up. I did some gerrymandering to make it work.
Now Nextdoor is including comments and posts from all of the surrounding neighborhoods, which is really annoying because I don't really care about what is going on over there and would just as soon not have them tracking what is going on over here.
Hmpf.