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Cd can be a "go to source" on a lot of matters. If I have questions about a particular food or brand, I can find it here. Obviously comment will be somebody's opinion.

The politics can get a bit edgy, but in general that is fun.

Finally a place that lets red blooded Americans speak their mines. Many sites cater to liberals or democrats. This forum appeals to real Americans not the Obama crowd. Trump supporting Americans can freely express their politically incorrect views without having to worry about offending sensitive snowflakes. Information is accurate and honest. No filter, just straight talk and none of that mainstream liberal garbage you see on other social media places. I love it. God bless city data forum and America.

I'm with the majority that posted negative reviews. I'd been a member for around 8 years without any problems or bad experiences. This changed when a 'troll' started bothering me for no apparent reason. Two of the mods were initially supportive, so it was like I was sucker-punched when they suddenly turned against me and one of the main mods said I was banned for life. Curious, I Googled to see if anyone else had had similar experiences, and many people did- all minorities. As it didn't occur to me to change my screen name, one of the mods actually followed (stalked) me onto Topix and started harassing me there. Upon learning who the main owner/admin was I emailed him, but he never replied. What irritates me is it presents itself as a community where everyone is welcome- but that's not the case at all.

I registered an account to post in a thread about an area/neighborhood I've lived since 1985 that has gone down hill lately. They don't want people with a lifetime extensive history of a city participating in a thread apparently - only tourists who don't know much. I was hoping there might be some people to discuss issues and attend city meetings and push the local gov to act. This is not the place for constructive discussion of real issues. Must be heavy handed moderated by people with special interests. Straight up censorship. I would not trust a website managed like that at all.

I have been a member of City Data for many years, getting positive rating points for helping folks with their questions about Wyoming and Colorado. I posted a real estate add for 35 acres in Wyoming and a troll started ripping on my add about how worthless the land was and things that had no added value to my post. I reported the posts three times. The mods closed my posting and put me on probation for defending myself against this $#*!. I will no longer be using this site as it is obvious that they are biased and only support their own agendas. I hope everyone will boycott them.

Not a pleasant place to be at all. The Politics & Controversies sub-forum is run by a moderator who goes by a name that begins with "I" and who runs the sub-forum like a little autocratic dictator who will ban you just for saying something innocuous that they don't like, but this person has no problem letting all sorts of horrible stuff from right-wingers through with no action. I was banned for "trolling" for 6 weeks just for making an innocent remark that I thought when the SC overturned Roe v Wade it would cause rioting. Stay away from this stupid place.

Most people there are moron idiot fans of Trump including the Mods, they suspend your account for fun and remove your thread if it's against Trump. You have no recourse they do what they want. You can't even discuss the moderation or you get suspended or banned.

The Mods will edit posts for people who like who are Republicans, but just delete yours if you are not for doing the same thing. Also one time I reported someone who posted a title "Operation Wet Back" about Trump's zero immigration policy at the south border and it was not removed. The next day a mod changed it to *** **** in the title. It was a total troll post but they likes it since they are racists so they left it.

The forum mods are bat crap crazy Gestapo! They delete posts for bull crap reasons because they do not agree with a poster's political views. So many better and less Nazi-like enforced rules on other political forums.

Are there any more poorly-educated, ill-informed, biased and ignorant moderators on the web? Answer me, as viewing the internet for over 20 years, I have yet to see such a level of total incompetence. So please answer the question. Banning people based on IP address is SO old-school, as routers, etc, you little children, can mask literal millions of users. I think a wake-up call of a DNS would awaken those that arbitrate at whim. Answer the question posted.

I joined City Data in 2014, and I posted in many different City Data sub-forums. Once I wondered over to the Politics and Other Controversies sub-forum, I quickly realized it's a haven for alt-right, extreme, neo-Nazi people.

Now, I don't ever shy away from good political debates. In fact, I enjoy them very much! However, the City Data moderators make it impossible to have polite discourse because they actively encourage and provide cover for the racist posters, while temporarily—then permanently—banning left-leaning posters. This happens repeatedly. I've seen it over the years. (Yes, I stayed fighting the good fight for way too long... until my own permanent ban, which was a blessing in disguise.)

I discourage everyone from providing this website any traffic, as it's not a good place for anyone without white nationalist views. Stay away! City Data has an absolutely terrible reputation that's completely warranted... and it's only getting worse.

I have been reading City Data for years. I can agree with them to a certain extent but not on an over all basis. It fails to create a realistic view of what is posted. I read posts I know first hand about and they are factual but twisted. Really unrealistic. It needs to be a little more open minded in my opinion.

Not sure if it started as a White supremacist site or they just happen to take over but this place is a cesspool of racist and bigot trolls.

Every conversation is tinged with white supremacy comments bashing non whites, liberals, gays, and foreigners. A truly disgusting site that will make you sick to your stomach

If you're a right wing Trumper than this is the place for you. If you think liberals, immigrants, Muslims, and Black people are to blame for all of your woes, this welcome to City Data Forum. Almost every post becomes some sort of rant against the horrors committed by liberals/democrats. A constant whine fest about how taxes are ruining their cities and how liberals have destroyed their beloved neighborhoods and how they can't wait to move to the sticks.

Blah blah blah. I wish they would just shut up and finally move, preferably to an area that has no internet access.

Stay away from this site. This is no place for open and honest discussion. It is full of trolls and bad faith operators. To make matters worse, the moderators are horrendous. They are either extremely biased or non-existent. When a post gets reported moderators freely edit and delete posts without reason. I've had dozens of posts that have been deleted that contained no personal attacks or vulgarity. They were deleted because the person I was conversing with didn't agree with what I said. So they reported me and the moderators deleted my post, regardless of whether I had broken any rules or committed a violation, such as attacking someone personally.

Reddit and other forums are much better places for open discussion. Where 99% of posts remain on the site and the community self moderates with up/down votes.

However, for the past couple years or so the most active forums have taken a alt-right tone...

The non-political forums are still ok but at times it spills over. 10+ year member. Kinda sad to see it go down from here.

I second the reviews on this page, complaining about the unpredictable and unfair moderation on CD. You can get in trouble if you post anything which challenges the conservative mindset. And there are some very vicious types who do as they please but are never banned; perhaps they're the owners, for all I know.

CD is addictive: you can get useful information, encounter interesting people, and work on ideas anonymously. But don't make the mistake of thinking it's fair or become negatively effected if you get chastised and/or banned. It's still a zoo.

I first started using City Data to get information an upcoming move. Whenever a new person talks about moving to WA state or any state, the same people come on and talk up the good stuff. Aside from WA rain, no one mentions anything bad. The site is full of realtors who will say anything to make a sale. There is too much dishonesty and beware of hiring a realtor from here.

If you want to go to the Alt med health forums, the mods are all pro medicine and will frequently shut down threads that don't agree with their views. They are fine with a certain group of pro med people making fun of those on Alt medicine. If you defend yourself, it's a good way to get banned for awhile. The pro med trolls never get banned.

The political forum is crazy, I don't go there anymore.

City Data is full of dishonest people and trolls. On the plus side, I've also met some nice people and it has good dog and animal information. It's a public site, so be aware and don't give out personal information.

Just a terrible website. It's a gathering place for alt-right Trump worshippers. The owners of the site are somewhere in a former Soviet-bloc territory, so it's no surprise they tend to authoritarianism.

The site is heavily moderated. Posts are automatically reviewed, and they might not get posted, depending on how the moderator feels. And those moderators like their little taste of power. Your posts can be randomly deleted, and you can get infractions (restricted from posting) or banned for no apparent reason.

Moderation is arbitrary. Censorship rears its ugly head. A post had been flagged before offering to public. Cites negative reaction would be promulgated. Unless moderator of Elections is clairvoyant impossible for him to judge. I believe he flagged because he felt a negative impact to his thoughts on the upcoming PA election.

As far as the forums go, there's a good chance that you'll get your posts deleted, and get an infraction or be banned if you try and argue against people who post racist/extreme right-wing ideology... while the racist posts don't get deleted. There have been rumors for years that a lot of the members and some of the moderators are trolls from the well-known white supremacist site Stormfront. You've been warned.

The data in the non-forum part of the website is good, but the fact that it's a site that's overrun with racists brings the whole thing down in a massive way.

The site appears to be owned by a company/person with strong right wing political positions. Does it hire people to join as anonymous members to continually post far right wing messages day after day? In reading the posts, it becomes apparent that specific anonymous members are definitely posting the party line, even repeating the same words over and over. Many people who contradict the certain specific members are penalized and/Or banned from the site. Please remember, even if you only read there, you are putting money intO the pockets of the owner when you scroll past the many advertisements. Highly censored site.

This site has a lot hate speech, and trump supporters. If you hold any progressive views or seen as a liberal, you can find this site really uncomfortable. The moderates must encourage people with far right wing ideologies here as they don't seem to be censored. Even if you go to a non-political section there you will encounter very biased threads.

I just checked myself out of the C-D asylum, too many trolls and idiots and biased mods that condone their behavior. After I was banned for "unknown" reasons and my posts were edited, it robbed me of enjoying the art of debate and compassionate conversation. Too bad, there is some occasional intelligent and empathetic conversations, I did enjoy it for a few years. Not any more, I'll leave it to the inmates to run the show.