Um, nope.

[ysobel]

So there's this site I've been a member of for a while -- Nextdoor, which is sort of like a localized Facebook.

I got an email yesterday saying they were temporarily suspending my account because sex predator. Apparently in the case of apartments they block *anyone in that apartment conplex* until they prove they're not the sex offender.

To resolve this, they want me to fax over a scan of my ID card with name and address listed.

...

Um how 'bout hell no. I don't trust websites that much.

(I looked up the sex offender registry. There is someone listed for this apartment complex, but a guy, with a completely different name than mine. And I don't get the policy of blocking the entire complex. True, I didn't list an apartment number with them, just the primary street address, and I suppose they have no way of knowing I don't live with this guy, but they also have no way of proving that someone two streets down isn't a close friend of the guy and lets him use their computer all the time, so wtf.)

I feel like I'm being unreasonably cranky about this, but wtelf.

Comments

[kaberett]

nah I don't think you're being ridic cranky. goodness gracious me.

[azurelunatic]

... wtf.

That's ...

... You are not the unreasonable party here.

[vass]

"If you don't give us (and anyone else who has access to our data or could hypothetically get access to our data) the means to steal your identity, we will assume that you're a sexual predator."

Nice.

[jesse_the_k]

Nopity nope de nope.

Based on my NextDoor experience, you're better off ... Cleaning the fracking toilet.

[we_are_spc]

1) wow.

2) I love my next door app. I've gotten several awesome things due to my neighbors being a part of it including our talking thermosthat installed (at no cost) and a friend who is willing to take us just about anywhere(When she's been available) we need to go. That said, wow. o.o That's just...WTF?

-Faron^SPC

[synecdochic]

What the actual fuck.