Stroud Green Road Nextdoor

MHP

Looks like there maybe some competition but I'm sure it's worth joining too!! https://stroudgreenroad.nextdoor.co.uk

Anka

I would like some FB group. Perhaps I will start one? The only one I have seen was just full of adverts. There is so many really lively ones for East London (ads are banned) with people just chatting. Hmmmmm. But who will join if I start one?

Arkady

Or you could just chat here instead. Where we already are.

Anka

Of course. I just find FB kind of easier to use as already there. But it is great to have a group like this one.

HolbornFox

My mate told me about that app, he is in Kensal Green but apparently it is thriving.

JoeV

About Nextdoor users: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/website-nextdoor-hears-racial-profiling-complaints.html?_r=0 To be fair, the company responded: https://www.wired.com/2016/08/nextdoor-breaks-sacred-design-rule-end-racial-profiling/

HolbornFox

That is a very bizarre thing to write on a forum in a city where the ethnicity mix is roughly equal. What was that about all publicity?

Anka

But if someone wrote "white guy in a red hat" that would be ok? Sorry but frankly I really do not get it - a bit over the top to be honest. For description to be accurate, what is the issue to include ethnicity? How is that racist?

JoeV

Here is another article: http://fusion.net/story/106341/nextdoor-the-social-network-for-neighbors-is-becoming-a-home-for-racial-profiling/ I think the point is that Nextdoor users were using race and ethnicity to describe people just going about their business.

andy

Nextdoor has raised over $200m. This site is a bargain.

Ali

Received a letter about this from some one claiming to be a John Peart from Victoria Road. Addressed to the house holder and had second class stamp. If he really exists he is a bit lazy could have hand delivered. I guess Next-door is just another way of usdusding your data for someone else to make oodles of money serving adds and avoid tax. Any adds that'd appear here generate a bit of revenue to play for hosting this I think ? The only John Peart I could find on Google was a rather unpleasant individual from Bimingham

gardener-joe

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trainspotter

It looked from the examples in the story as if people were reporting people as being suspicious just on the basis that they didn't recognise them and they were black. That feels a bit alien here, but it's worth being aware that this stuff happens so one can check oneself for unconscious bias. The new approach requires someone to say what was suspect about the behaviour, before giving a description of the suspect. The description can include ethnicity, of course, but not just that.