Bullies and Censorship on Nextdoor….Hurt Local Charities!….

The alternative world of Nextdoor. It’s Mission: Where neighbors support local businesses and get updates from public agencies…..not so much anymore tho.

Where else can people make up stories about who they are, claim false credentials and ruin other neighbors, then vote locally to remove residents from their own community all based on libel, false names and a personal agenda that is all for their own benefit? You can have it all in the Oxnard Beach Areas. The libel suits will be coming because of the irresponsible words/actions and the destruction of some of our neighbors and our Small Businesses’ great reputations. Three or four shouldn’t be allowed to falsify and just out of hatred, for the purpose of ruining people or their businesses or local charity theatre events. What could be positive and used to help in these hard times is being abused by some. This is NOT what Nextdoor was created for per their funding companies.

Nextdoor Website is meant to bring neighbors and community together and to help each other, but what is practiced in the Beach Areas is something very dastardly. We have rogue Leads/Reviewers who now use this to ostracize innocent people from their own communities. Some are actually judge and jury, all based on false misinformation being placed by certain website Leads to destroy local small businesses/fundraiser volunteers and prevent them from holding community charities. It continues to happen here thru certain neighbors who have dubbed themselves the psychological judge (not credible) of Oxnard Neighborhood Residents. Taking advantage of those whom they dislike or a business that some want to see fail. We have a local real estate (Lead) company joining in on ruining businesses and people too by posting misinformation about our area residents and deals they are not privy to. Look at Oxnard’s new taxes too!

Corporate Nextdoor has rules/guidelines yet a few local L/R do not respect and have formed their own coups. Rumors and evidence is circulating of bribery and favors now, connections to local elections and deeds from Leads campaigning for them, sending private messages. You are punished for not voting for their choice.

We have all experienced some form of disrespect on this website but the racists remarks that are left up in posts or the false claims of someone doing something illegal can take on its own energy when some have a personal vendetta. This is how Nextdoor is being used and especially since elections, some have just taken it upon themselves to DELETE any info they personally do not agree with.

Yes, Leads and Reviewers will tell you they cannot but here are all their EXTRAS, sent to me by Nextdoor Corporate….
•They can vote to REMOVE posts at local level.
•They can adjust neighborhood boundaries.
•They are to contact you prior to removing posts to work things out.
•They are to be fair and unbiased.
•They are to use their real names.
•They are NOT BACKROUND checked so can say they have creditials but no proof.
•Criminals have been located on Nextdoor.

What has occurred is that this website is being used as revenge on some small businesses and those that have helped them. We did an community art fundraiser to help Elite Theatre and Fisherman’s Wharf small businesses and now a few leads have decided that this was a commercial event, with absolutely no evidence of this. My question to the public is why? Why can some petty people commit to destroy our beach area via Nextdoor website? It is not contributing to any neighborhood goodness and is very divisive. The egoes are getting incredible!

It’s the local level that has its issues and now it’s time to purge those negative Leads/Reviewers out of this “helpful website” if they are just there to destroy your area and your neighbors. Things are not improving.

Please don’t take my word for it, just share your experiences too. We need to turn this around to make it fair and equitable for all residents in Oxnard Beach Areas and beyond. Something can be done. Please write to (Reporter/CJ) and Nextdoor Corporate too, about your experiences in the Beach Areas or other Lead/Reviewer complaints.

This behavior now bleeds over into public meetings or events where one Lead in particular lives to yell at events and call people names, that is not necessary or is it neighborly (the PCYC Auction). Maybe Psych Evals should be done on Leads/Reviewers. Some are extremely aggressive and scary in public, and this behavior shows up on Nextdoor too.

Dotty Pringle
CI Harbor Research
Oxnard Local Artists