City-Data.com

Got banned. No warning or explanation and per their rules they can do this. I hope they go downhill like Twitter and Facebook. Buliies galore and zero done to them, but I get banned. Found out when I tried to sign in today.

I enjoyed using this site to learn about different places to live and hear what people had to say about the communities around my area. Earlier today I meant to respond to a post, but I accidentally made a new Fourm. Keep in mind, I'm new to the site so I didn't know how to work everything perfectly. I logged on about an hour ago and found I had been banned permanently for spam! I also have no way of appealing my ban. All for making an innocent mistake.

Everything as fine until moderators dont like what you say,
Its really odd because its not clear what policy you have broken other than somebody just does not like what you say.
Especially if its protesting any racial or social injustice.
I was told after I heated debate with multiple facts and sources to back my argument that I was not breaking any rules but to stop speaking my mind.
After asking what rules i was breaking in a polite respectable manor, I was banned after being on for 5 years.
If you speak too much of the truth, they will ban you. Dont get too political as the moderators are not very intelligent and take offense easily.
They will allow many racist statements to go unchecked but delete non offensive statements.
Just not a good or well run site due to moderators.It would be great if not for them. Particularly JMT and YAC. Just horrible

I posted a story about a women getting raped by muslim refugees. The liberal trolls came out of every corner and defended the refugees. One poster actually blamed the victim for getting raped because she put herself in the position. I couldn't believe my eyes. The next day I was banned for "trolling"... total garbage forum with no freedom to speak.

I agree that realtors are probably on this site as well as those writing books or other articles on the best places to live in a particular state or country.

But what happened to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? You people bashing posters for saying what they want to say have a nerve and are promoting what many Americans and others in non-socialist countries are fighting against. You don't have to agree with the content of those racist or partisan posts you mention. We should be free to say what we want whether it's offensive to some people or not! Period.

Terrible. User generated content is wrong most of the time and the general forums are pretty much just a broadcast system for hate speech, racism, antisemitism, etc. It's not helpful and pretty much exists just for low lifes to argue woth each other about who they hate more.

I don't know about the other sections of City Data but their religious site is absolutely awful! There are some good people there but City-Data allows racist bigot people to post hateful speech towards people that are not right wing conservative. Several comments were made that Native American Indians should pay taxes before they have the right to speak. Considering the broken treaties, the stealing of land, and death march genocide statement that was made, this individual was insensitive, demeaning, and intentionally trying to make Indians look bad to prove a point.

Here is another quote from a thread titled: Navajo Indians object NASA moon launch on religious grounds:

"Considering the living conditions I have personally seen on a number of Indian reservations, considering the level of drug and alcohol addiction on many reservations, and the condition of cemeteries I have seen on a couple of Indian reservations, I don't think they have the moral right to lecture the rest of us on the moon."

This statement is so typical of demeaning a person or race to invalidate them. According to this statement Native Americans are drug addicts, that don't have the moral right to lecture people about religion.

I just gave a two examples of the hate projected against people of different faiths, but there are so many demeaning, bullying, and disgusting comments made on their religious site and especially their Christian one as well!

Instead of having mutual respect and tolerance with people of different faiths, they attack anyone that doesn't have conservative right wing views. Amazingly enough Christians attack Christians on this site and try to invalidate each other if people are not from their denomination.

In general, City-Data religious site is too toxic, argumentative, bullying, intimidating, insensitive, and disgusting it will make you disillusioned with religion and people in general. Please don't go to this site it will make you lose faith in humanity!

Was googling for pickled herring reviews and turned up a thread on this website that I had posted one post to a few years back - did not remember doing so but when I tried to register it said I was already registered!

Okay, logged in. Answered a post that said there was no source of picked herring in this-city. I said this-supermarket in this-city has picked herring in their deli case. Went back the next day to see what was going on to find out I was banned.

Guess they don't like pickled herring. Their loss.

The New York City Data is populated by real estate and development trolls, anti-rent regulation, "socialism," "red scare(s)!," what-have-you. It is also populated by right-wing trolls. There are very, very few real people. Most of them probably believe that by posting and posting they can sway politicians or "the public." Be that as it may, little of it is worth reading. In fact, there is a great deal of misinformation, likely deliberate.

Be advised, and do not take any of it seriously. There are also more than a few psychos - a great reason never to post anything yourself. Don't engage.

Everyone just wants to get in a fight, and most of them don't even know what the hell they're talking about. 90% of the advice I saw on there was subjectively bad, objectively false, or very often both. Not a good place to get relocation advice, and the other subforums are even worse -- just wall-to-wall trolls.

There are very disturbing posts on this site about rape and when I pointed these out, I was banned. The moderators did not give a reason. They also apparently don't delete the disturbing posts of these individuals. This would not be allowed anywhere else on the internet.

You WILL be banned for the most inane reasons. Every post will be monitored apparently and anyone can and will be reported for anything of the mod doesn't catch it first. Yes I am still a member have been one for nearly 10 years and getting ready to go on my second multi year sabbatical from them. I wrote the mods publicly in a thread this morning letting them know they are dismantling their own kingdom with their self righteousness. You cannot say anything there without it being taken wrong. Even when I asked a man who appeared to be contemplating jumping from a bridge near my home,, I just asked to clarify if he were really serious about this or just super upset for the moment and was punished by a mod about it as a personal attack. When I was actually VERY CONCERNED.

The site is obviously administered by the more enlightened, tolerant, inclusive, loving-left and will BAN anyone who, no matter how polite and respectful their post, expresses an opinion contrary to liberal narratives.

The right wingers are the only ones who seem to have free speech. Lean left? The moderators will find a reason to suspend you. Ibginnie is one of the worst moderators. Hates any view other than pro Trump. A real scum bag troll.

If you arrive as a new user and are not a MAGA person they will virtually destroy you. I posted and 5 minutes later a creep that clearly did not read my post attacked me. Many followed and called me troll, it felt like a gang attack just because my ideas are not pro Trump. The moderator (s) are pro-Trump and should be removed immediately since they are bias and not impartial. My post only lasted 10 hours, as it was deleted because it did not align with the far right. If the poster abandons the thread, it may last a little longer but if you defend your idea, it will be gone very quickly. This site clearly violates the freedom of speech and the proper authorities should get involved and shut it down.

All you have to do to get banned is say anything remotely conservative and critical of liberal caused and it's not IF but WHEN your account gets out down. You don't have to do anything vicious or mean, just have your own conservative views and not only will you be banned but you have no opportunity for self defense. The moderators are the ones who are rude and derisive. Too bad too because it could be a helpful site.

City-Data is essentially a propaganda/disinformation site for realtors, frequented by a paid content generators and thuggish paid moderators. It tends to be fairly racist, they are looking to steer white buyers to their preferred realtors. Seriously think it should be investigated for discriminatory practices. If you're looking for input on locations, best to use friends and family and actual real people. Most of the frequent posters there are either realtors lying about who they are and what they do for a living, or paid content generators. This is not the place to go to if you're seriously looking to relocate.

I spoke out against the EarthQuest billion dollar theme park scam on City-Data. I came to the discussion with piles of mainstream media articles, court records and more about the project and the obvious scammers behind it. Don Allen Holbrook, the brainchild behind the scam that made over 1.2 million dollars, sued newspapers, journalists and all the taxpayers in Texas that dared to speak out against it and little old me, Soapboxmom. Holbrook got his a$$ handed to him in court. The taxpayers in Texas are out 24 million dollars for a theme park that will never get further than a pile of pretty drawings. City-Data is a joke!

This is really just a racist site pretending to be a legit forum. Moderators will censor and shut down any views that don't fall in line with their racist views. Very far right fascist tendencies. I was banned because I called out a member who was posting multiple stories about black on white crime. I asked him why he was so obsessed with stories about black on white crime and was called a communist who supports white genocide. The moderator banned me hours later for "trolling". The member remains active and continues to rant about anti white racism and white genocide.

I was banned from City-data after I made a truthful post about working with mental illness. I spoke of my several mental health issues in response to a post by a schizophrenic who has been unemployed for some time. I guess that my life was too much to handle for the mods, as I for banned for being a "TROLL". Oh well. But I did like it that the site had a lot.of features for a message board (blogs, customizable profiles, etc.)

If you are looking for a site that had inaccurate information about city and a forum site full of bigots and racists that is moderated by people who are White Nationalists, then look no further than City-Data. Though if you are one who isn't a racist or a bigot or a member of any white supremacist groups, then you will probably be banned the moment you try to correct anyone on their wrong and racist views. Yac, who is one of the senior moderators, has openly said he supports letting racists speak their mind on their site, and anyone trying to correct them will be banned. This site should be tucked away to the darkest corner of the Internet, and no sane person should use it or rely on any of its information.

I'm on the Left and I made that clear on the C-D forum. However, I said nothing inflammatory or abusive to anybody. I did nothing one could construe as trolling. However, one of the mods called me a troll and banned me for life. No warning. No explanation. No second chance. Now, I read City-Data threads on numerous subjects for months before I joined. They DO have lots of interesting information about places all over the world.

My advice: Read, but don't join. If you join and one of their neurotic mods doesn't like one of your posts, she can ban you on the spot. After you are banned, you can no longer even READ information on City-Data. All that comes up is the "You're Banned" message. DON'T JOIN THE FORUMS, they are FULL of trolls. The mods are trolls too.

If I could give this site no stars, I would.

I reported a user for racism and personal attacks. Never had I once posted a single comment there. Yet, somehow I was the one who was banned for "trolling". Seriously?