[Archivist's note: This is round one (Feb. 2021). Round two (Nov. 2021) is here and here.]
Not in _any_ way surprising. ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:00:54 -0800 From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> To: [a friend who is a NextDoor community lead] Subject: Reminder that we are NextDoor's product, not customers I refreshed my NextDoor tab, and behold! Account temporarily disabled Your account has been temporarily disabled for a violation of this Community Guideline: Be respectful to your neighbours We want all neighbours to feel welcome, safe, and respected on Nextdoor. When conversations turn disagreeable, everyone on Nextdoor suffers. Our Guidelines prohibit posts and replies that discriminate against, attack, insult, shame, bully, or belittle others. Learn moreabout this guideline and our moderation process. Sign in again in 4 days (Feb 18) Predictably, there would never be detail cited, but I can guess: Yesterday, in one of the threads about Michael Thomas Cheek, the 'sexual violent predator' proposed to be released to Emerald Hills, Redwood City, one woman decided to use the thread to suggest that the release was to punish the community, and that it was part of an aim to bring about "melting pot" damage. Another commenter asked her to please explain this comment. I seconded, saying it seemed suspiciously like dog-whistling to white supremacists, and that the charge of forcing a "melting pot" on the hilly and expensive suburbs above Redwood City by placing someone named Michael Thomas Cheek there is a little comical, the person being not what one would call ethnic. The same woman also claimed in that thread that sexual abuse of children has no legal penalty in Greece. I pointed out that this was erroneous, cited links to the specific parts of the Greek Penal Code that make child sexual abuse a serious crime, and suggested she should please retract the claim and apologise to Greek readers, as there is no universe in which that is not offensive to that entire nation, not to mention being flat-out factually incorrect. And I asked her to please do basic checking of such claims in the future before making them. I'm pretty certain it was one or both of those two. Probably both. Anyway, it's good to know that NextDoor's moderators are protecting racists and xenophobics against the horror of being told their claims are mistaken and consequently feeling bad. Well done! ----- End forwarded message -----