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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by tedunangst on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:03PM (#10389044)
Town hall meetings, being somewhat limited in duration, do a better job of filtering out the peeve of the minute nonsense. Half the time the problem will resolve itself before the meeting.
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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by oconnore on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:13PM (#10389113)
Is filtering really what you want, though? It's trivial to filter out the nonsense from Nextdoor, too: just set up a bookmarklet that drops all the posts containing one of {sketchy, black, hispanic, male, teens, loose jeans, hoodie, 911}. Problem solved, amirite? We can name it sweep_under_the_rug.js
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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:33PM (#10389267)
It solves the problem for you, but the rest of your neighbors have to put up with it - and it further isolates you from the problems they face.
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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by tedunangst on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:26PM (#10389219)
Yes, I want filtering, and no, I don't want to write my own javascript to do it.
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