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When community spaces become battlegrounds over purpose and tone

Our neighborhood group chat has turned into a constant stream of complaints about crime and politics and some of us want to focus on community building but others seem to just want to vent. We can't agree on what this space should be for and it's starting to drive people away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared space is fragmenting because members have fundamentally different ideas about its purpose and boundaries.

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