Are you a member of Nextdoor?

Yes, and it's nothing but freaking drama. I read it for the laughs, usually.

I thought seeing the neighborhood drama was the only reason to join nextdoor, you were looking for something else?

I am. But I am signed up for the daily digest, so I get one email naming the threads, and then can click on the ones that interest me and ignore the rest. In the past I've found my RE agent from recommendations there, my painter, my housecleaners, and most recently a woman who used to have an upholstery shop who saw my posting looking for someone to make throw pillows for me. I've also sold and given away things on it. Overall I find it to be a positive place as long as I don't get sucked into reading some of the more fractious threads.

There are repeated long, harsh threads about our local government. People treat "the other side" as badly as some do here, which is shocking to me. These are your neighbors for heaven's sake! The political divisiveness is astounding. The other hot topics are homelessness/mentalhealth/drug addiction which is a HUGE problem in Seattle. Also, if you read the posts you'd think that petty crime has taken over the city/neighborhood. Yes, it's a problem...definitely! But, not to the extent that one would think from reading the posts.

We have a great group of moderators who take care of issues immediately. Rarely does some inappropriate items get through and if so, they don't last long. I love that right now people are trading vegies form their gardens and have started book clubs.

Mine is mostly missing cat, coyote sighting over and over and over.

I do find it informative and used it to give away a sofa bed to a nice couple when it didn't fit our new house. The drama is a bonus.

I am here and I was in California. The one here is completely quiet. The one from our neighborhood in CA was at times a huge drama. Every single 4th of July for 2 weeks afterward was neighbors accusing neighbors of shooting off fireworks and Oozies (? Guns) people loosing their hearing from said fireworks, neighbors saying their homes could have exploded. You get the drift. 

One time I posted because one night, a truck had hit a coyote and it was dead on my side yard. I didn’t want the kids walking to school to touch it because of possible diseases. And I let everyone know that I had contacted Animal Control to pick it up. There were responses from how could someone hit a coyote and how it must have suffered, to coyotes are so good for parks because they kill the moles.  

I am and I don't see drama. I actually see more of it on my neighborhood listserve. lol.

Nextdoor was how we connected a little white dog named Bambino who my dd found walking down the street, with his owner who was at work worried to death.   (owner went to work, his dad was at home waiting for a service person, service guy showed up, opened the door, Bambino ran out, dad called son at work, dad went out searching in the rain, dd was walking a neighbor's dog and happened to see Bambino, a woman passing by with her dog took a photo of dd and Bambino and posted it on Nextdoor, and the rest is history as they say...)

The biggest topic in mine is lost dogs. While I appreciate the idea, sometimes there are just so many that I have occasionally thought of unsubscribing. Most of the time though it is pretty tame.

I was but unsubscribed. Same with my town's "unofficial" Facebook news and discussion group. Too much blatant racism, homophobia, etc... and general fucknut attitudes.

The last straw was an "alert" about a black man walking down a street that passed between my neighborhood and the one next to it. They were burning up the messages warning people to lock your doors and keep your guns at hand.

I am and last month, out of the blue, I got a notice that I was/am now the "Lead" for our group. !!
Not a job I solicited nor wanted. However, it gave me the power to shut down a thread that was full of stupid
comments regarding the upcoming elections. Ours is supposed to be no politics, so I just "closed the discussion."
No one has started a thread demanding for it to be open or starting a new one.

We have tons of lost pets. I get a little annoyed because the one posting gives the notice to everyone in north Dallas.
I realize pets wander, but I doubt that dog/cat came over 10 miles.

It is nice to know some suburban city news via Next Door such as zoning changes.

That's why I used a phony name. 

I am but I only go there when I am looking for recs and such. I unsubbed from the daily digest after Harvey last year because of the stupid threads about the levee system that no one seemed to understand, but yet people were convinced that they were somehow to blame for not holding back mountains of water.

In any case, the hottest topic around here seems to be how shocking it is that cars get broken into [when the owner clearly admits to leaving it unlocked] and the demands for the sheriff/police to "do something about it."

You sound like you lived in my CA neighborhood because that's how our NextDoor posts are. Exactly the kind of posts about Fourth of July and coyotes in the area. 

 🙂 I actually lived in No. CA in the Bay Area. But I imagine many neighborhoods in CA are the same.