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One of the mods IBGINNIE is an absolute idiot that deletes posts that he/she/it doesn't agree with or just out of spite. This mod seems to not have a life outside of the forum and takes her/his/its resentment and frustration out on strangers who are are merely commenting on political topics of the day. Not a user friendly site as it is overly moderated by nitwits like this mental midget IBGINNIE. Much better forums to visit.

City-data is a great forum with lots of useful info, once you enter Politics side it all goes down hill. It is dominated by far right extremists who post hateful garbage and conspiracy theories day in and day out and if you challenge any of it the hateful biased mod IBginnie will give you a infraction call you a troll and say you're hijacking a thread and ban you.

I see the usual members on there doing what this biased idiot mod accuses others of doing every day and she never bans them or gives any citations because they hijack threads daily and attack other users that aren't Trump supporters.

There is no one to reach to report this mod for her out of control biased behavior most mods have told me the Admin doesn't care anymore and gives her free reign to do what she wants. A few mods have told me she is hated and they can't stand her and only put up with her because they like the community and agree she is on a power strip and needs to be removed.

Its not just me saying this look at all the other complaints on here regarding her/him. City-data is fun and informative just stay out of politics or she will harass and follow your every move if your not MAGA. She is the definition of a Troll.

The Maine City Data forum is moderated and dominated by people with a far-right agenda, strongly pro-gun and anti-immigrant. They present themselves as representing "real" Mainers, setting up a false divide between people from old Maine families and newcomers. They refer to all immigrants as "illegal aliens," undercutting the state government's efforts to welcome legal immigrants to solve Maine's severe labor shortage. They personally target people who post anything that strikes them as too liberal, like something feminist, and censor their posts. Over the years the overt censorship and hostility has led to a gradual decline in the forum, with far fewer posts and disappearing members. Their agenda is to discourage outsiders from coming to Maine. They're probably succeeding at that. Appealing to the City Data uber moderators will bring no response at all. They obviously support the far-right moderators. This proves that the real agenda of City Data is not to facilitate people moving to other states. Increasingly, the forums seem to be far-right rallying places.

C-D, specifically P&OC is the ultimate example of online facism. I'm still shocked from coming to city-data to research a move, then checking on a poster's history to end up in the P&OC forum. I think Lech Mazur is a devil and I always wonder how C-D makes money. Once upon a time I'm guessing they made money from realtors, now I think they make money from right wing extremists. Very scary stuff.

I joined up today with a funny name "NakedHunterBiden". I posted one thread on how Trump has added more to the deficit and a few mins later I was banned. The reason given was that I was a troll and that it would be lifted never. That's some $#*!ty moderation you got there.

While this site advertises itself as a relocation guide, it rarely serves its' purpose; as the majority of members post in politics. Unfortunately, even this section fails; as mods simply lock threads even when there are no TOS violations. This makes it impossible to carry on any conversations for any length of time, plus your own threads become useless; and buried intentionally.
I'd be very hesitant to waste any time on this site, as almost all reviews here are the same horror stories. And their software(Vbulletin)has features that are inactive, such as when other comment on your post; you literally have to look up your own post for a reference point. There are no purchases to be made from this site, at least that I'm aware of.
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There was a thread recently in the Politics forum concerning Kristi Noem killing her German Wirehaired Pointer. The matter was all over the news cycle, with wide admonishment from the left and right. The thread was 9 pages and totally centered on this very public political issue. The thread was deleted. Not locked- deleted. You cannot post anything that sheds and negative light on far right 'darlings'. It's not a place for true political conversation. That sub-forum is moderated by Ibginnie and she hands out infractions to anyone that sheds the MAGA cult any negative light. Stay away from the place unless you are a true MAGA faithful. There is no room for Independents there.

Many of my posts are deleted while others with similar off topic or even attacking others stay on because it meets their RW political agenda. They are trying to get me booted off permanently and then simply will be an echo chamber. Sad.

Most topics on city-data are informative and you can have productive discussion's and get helpful info. That all goes down the toilet when you enter the politics forum

If you aren't a pro MAGA boot licker you will mostly likely be suspended and banned by the pro MAGA moderator.

She has suspended and banned people for simply having a opposing view that is not pro Trump MAGA she will either say you are off topic/hijacking or a troll for no reason just because you challenge the pro Trump discussions and have alternative views. It's pretty much a echo Chamber at this point.

She plays favorites and mostly Targets Democrats/independents she doesn't agree with. And is on a huge power trip.

There is no place to complain or report bad mods even the senior mods have given up and don't care and I'm not sure the Admin is even active or cares either.

Shameful such a great forum but seems to be neglected and going downhill by a few bad apples.

I joined in 2008 or so and loved City-data. It was a fun place to connect with people who shared my community and interests. While there was the occasional conflict, discussions were productive and well moderated, at least in my state forum. Commenters could and did argue, but we knew where the boundaries were and behaved accordingly. Fast forward to today, and many of the posters I enjoyed in earlier years have been driven off by the toxicity, and I've joined them. It's disheartening. City-Data, if you read reviews, it's time to clean house. Your moderators, with a few notable exceptions (shout out to Mikefrombackeast), are terrible and drive off your most engaging and helpful members. What remains is a cesspool. The "discussions" are not edifying or even entertaining. They're just mind-numbing.

My assessment: Find another discussion forum. This one is very bad news and unlikely to improve.

Forums. To Formally Apprehend The 20-30 CD Representatives. Or Even New Control Of Ownership As A Solid Alternative From Closing:

Yes, you are also right Jeff K. And T J. In the Mid Late April Reviews. I just sent +1 Helpful Votes. Elnina, mjlo, Mike from back east, Ibginnie all have to be forcibly removed. They are not acting right. All of our members want to get rid of them correctly. All of our CD members can't stop saying active Complaints about them.

Elnina, mjlo, Mike From Back East, Ibginnie mass deleted literally tens of thousands Posts+Topics in Multiple Forums since March 2023. They mass banned hundreds to thousands of our best members for zero valid reasons. They mass close our topics from ever reaching smooth uninterrupted popularity. They wrongfully verbally harass our members. And issued completely outlandish delusional Infractions that are made up. I will never let Mike from back east, or elnina get away with that! Lech Mazur the CEO, the new Yac, and Mightyqueen801 are never responding to all of our own members urgent emergencies. They failed to resolve the severe fatal errors of Mike from back east. I ask for help and they just never responded even once after 19-23 months!?... Very pathetic humiliating representatives that are just forever ashamed of themselves! I am going to get them and all 20-30 CD city-data Representatives into trouble for that.

Heavily censored site to push pro-Trump agenda. Criticism of him is considered trolling and will result in posts being deleted and the account banned. Pro-Trump posters can say whatever they want and personal attacks are tolerated. RW posters dominate the site 10-1 ratio, and they will gang up on anyone who disagrees. Horribly biased mods. Don't waste your time. The Christianity form mods allow atheists and universalists push their nonsense, and Christian posters are infracted for responding.

Fairly new to the politics forum and it's a joke. I like the economic and retirement conversations, but the political forum has right wing nutjob moderators that block any other views. It is just a right wing, conspiracy theory echo chamber. Waste of time and no real political value or discussions.

I finally walked away from city data. My issue was with political & other controversy. The mods favor left leaners if not outright Trump haters. They cheer on our present bumbler.

The senior areas are rife with self important elderly. Most are spouting about the trips they've taken or will take. Constantly one upmanship regarding retirement and how much $$$$ they will get when they retire.

They usually remove political sniping in other forums, but not always. They also will not respond to explain why your post was deleted except to tag it falsely

If you like to enjoy discussion, don't waste your time there

A lot has been made about so-called "troll farming" attacking Americans. But troll farms are not the only way that enemies of state and fringe groups have been sowing dissension in American. Foreign nationals and fringe groups have been opening and managing so-called "American forums" or US-centric sites for years to spread propaganda and spy on the thoughts of American citizens. For example, I remember not too long ago when a white nationalist site targeting Americans was shut down, because it was really based in Romania.

A lot of "Americancentric" sites are this, just fronts to attract decent American citizens to them and spread propaganda and agitprop to gaslight and confuse. City-Data is one of these sites. Upon research, I read through the grapevine that it's really owned by Eastern Europeans. I don't know how accurate this is, but having also been banned for calling out disinformation, this certainly seems to be the case. I was banned because, as a native New Yorker, I became suspicious of the "regulars" who didn't seem to have any familiarity with NYC culture or history. After several months there, one of the outed themselves as a disinfo troll. They posted a lie that housing rates had soared because Chinese people were doing anything they could to avoid blacks. As soon as I called this comment out, a mod edited my post then gave me a "warning." When I complained, I was banned, with the reason that I was a "troll." I had been a faithful poster there, giving out historical and cultural information about NYC, with photos and everything, because I am actually a New Yorker. The troll who seemed nothing but post racist dog whistles all day was allowed to remain.

If you, as an American, have evidence that this site is really Disinfo, contact the Department of Justice with your story, as well as screenshots. Get this site investigated. Don't just post at Sitejabber; contact your representatives.

If you express any kind of negative opinion/question about a city you will be banned. Defeats the entire purpose of a forum that used to be dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of a particular city.

The above makes the forum worthless, and not to be trusted as a resource when you are researching cities in which to move.

Long Story Short: The members post extreme right-wing view points that are considered to be racist and bigoted. If you attempt to point out their flaws with evidence, you will either be censored by the mods (with them editing the post saying that you are wrong) or they will banned you outright with the reason as "troll."

The Politics Forum is a toilet. Just mostly conservatives hating on liberals non-stop to the point it is quite sad that people will spend hours on City-Data just arguing over people they will never know personally. Some members will even post crap like blacks hate the Jews and we must fight the Democrats since they will attack the white people. Enough said.

Entire site is filled with far right lunatics that post sexist, racist, and homophobic drivel left and right. The racism is barely even veiled, and very reminiscent of Stormfront in ideology. Conspiracy theories also heavily promoted.

This site is run by nazis. Privileged kids who have no clue about the real world will ban you for saying anything that they don't agree with. It's a joke- and I'm glad I was banned as I will never waste my time there again.

Complete time waster. You will not find any useful information. The site has been overrun by realtors, racist Trump trolls, and bitter angry rural people who love to trash cities.

Forget about having a productive conversation, virtually every thread gets taken over by some troll (either Russian or bitter social reject) The trolls seem to make every topic about how horrible Obama, Hillary, or minorities are, even if the topic is non political Very toxic environment

Sure, there are some fringe racists from the right on that site, but I've seen as many if not more bigots from the left. The reason you see people here saying it's an alt-right site is because they are liberals who interpret everything that doesn't subscribe to the liberal narrative as being racist. (Example: explaining why you are opposed to CRT for your young children or saying that singing the Black National Anthem at every football game is divisive rather than unifying will get you called a white nationalist or a racist member of the KKK.)

That said, it is ridiculously moderated. The mods are given full authority to ban posters if they happen to disagree with a post, one where there are no insults, no bullying, no bad language, etc., and posts that lay out good arguments against liberal policies can disappear without warning as well.

Blatant double standards applied when moderators decide who's posts to delete. Don't bother complaining. They don't care.
Moderators are all over the place on what they allow. Some let debate flow a bit too freely, others are absurdly strict.
Has potential as an informative source for moving issues, but walk away before you get hooked.

It is good forum per its design. Very versatile, millions of members.
Problem with it is somewhere else.
It has very trigger happy moderators that, more than often, consider their personal opinions ultimate measure to which posts to be permitted and which ones closed or deleted.
Also, some moderators, as they do post their opinions in threads, take responses personally and, literally, will stalk respondents and hassle their posts.
Some areas are lacking this, like Automotive. Some, are plane toxic, like Religion and Spirituality, in this respect.
Forum is censored ruthlessly.
Unfortunately, I could not find a better one, as Quora has terrible unfriendly layout. Citi is nice in that aspect.
But, it's either please moderators or, be banned. There is little to none freedom of speech there. And I happen to know, what I am talking about, being super mod at a very large forum myself.