Nextdoor app - very dystopian change and a small group of people in Dublin are enforcing it
There has been a very dystopian rule change in the nextdoor application.
Theres a new rule to report people who are "promoting commerce"
Basically, the website / app now doesnt let you recommend a business more than once a month. Lets say someone asks for recommendations for an auto shop and you recommend one you go to. The next week, the same thing happens and you recommend that same business again. STRAIGHT TO JAIL. You've just violated the rules.
This is clearly a rule designed to strong arm businesses to have to pay to be advertisers on the nextdoor platform. That gives these business less money to pay to advertise through their local newspapers etc and instead the advertising dollars across the country all gets funneled to nextdoor.
The biggest problem with this is that it relies on neighbors screwing over neighbors. If people touch grass and stop enforcing these rules that are designed to increase ad $$$ for nextdoor, small businesses and word of mouth could still function on it. And most neighbors dont follow this dystopian rule. But in places like Dublin, Ohio, a small group of like 5 people that get a buzz off of reporting people make up probably 95% of the reports. And that small group of people, when they act in concert, can greatly influence what you can and cannot see