So does it get results, or just make a bad situation even worse?

In a suburb, street or a house near you, neighbours are at war.

And secret recordings of these wars, from covert cameras, are being uploaded on the web for the world to see.

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It's a new age of ‘name and shame’, with guerrilla tactics on a digital scale.

At Murrarie, in Brisbane's east, the battle lines are drawn.

Anke Steiner and Melissa Smith are at their wits’ end.

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Their relationship with the woman living between them, also named Melissa, deteriorated not long after she moved in.

“There's no real words to describe you what living next door to her for two years has been like,” Smith said.

“She'll just start screaming and yelling, you know all hours of the day and the night,” Smith said.

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Steiner agrees. “She has the most horrific personality I've ever come across. She's just awful,” Steiner said.

“She screams abuse, she throws cat poo in our yard, rubbish, just general kitchen rubbish. She's rocked our roof, she's egged my windows, I've had to replace curtains because of the egg all over them.”

With allegations of faecal flinging, flying across the once quiet garret street, it was only a matter of time before insults did too.

How the conflict started no one really knows, but neither party seems willing to end it either.

But now the women have the digital evidence they need to take the matter to the police.

Night and day Steiner and her neighbours are on the lookout for trouble, armed with a video camera.

Across town Rick Neeson too is on 24-hour watch.

Rick and his wife Bec are filing a Peace and Good Behaviour Order against their neighbour, all the while keeping an eye on a live camera stream of his front yard.

However neighbour Sandy Wilson claims he and his wife are victims - the target of vitriolic slander on a website created by Rick.

“We've been living in the house for about six months now, and the last five we've just been constantly harassed by stuff like being filmed. I've had pictures of me put on the internet, telling people to spit at me,” Wilson said.

In the grubby game of neighbourhood disputes relationships can deteriorate very quickly. From simple backyard spats, things can escalate to all-out war.

And on this domestic battlefront, the weapon of choice is a CCTV camera.

Rick disputes that the cameras are an invasion of privacy.

“It’s absolute rubbish. The only reason why those cameras are up there is because of the abuse. We got told by the police to put those cameras up there to get evidence of them abusing us,” he said.

But Rick’s taken things one step further, posting a dossier of his unneighbourly encounters online.

So is having the website inflaming the situation?

Rick admits that “it might do.” However he also says “I just needed to tell my story - our story - of these people, of what they're doing to us. Here's the videos, here's the pictures, here's the proof.”