City-Data.comReviews 286

This is what I noticed repeatedly about City-Data:

If you're discussing politics, you can state just about anything you want, if your political thinking is to the right of center.

OTOH

If you're to the left of center in politics, your comments will not be appreciated.

I tried repeatedly to post verified negative information about Trump's relationship with Putin and each time it was deleted.

I also attempted to post information about the Alt-Right movement here within the US and how Trump has appointed Alt-Right propents as closest staff members, like Stephen Miller, Julia Hahn, and Steve Bannon.

Those posts also got deleted!

Anytime you post anything either anti-right or anti-Trump, expect to get banned.

I figured I would participate in the (nonpolitical) forums on this website, since there is one about the area I live in, and I figured I could provide some helpful feedback. What I instead found was a lot of complaining about racial minorities and "radical liberals". When I, respectfully, argued against these attitudes, I was permanently banned almost immediately, based on the insane allegation that I was a previous user in disguise. When I made another account and tried to make a simple, respectful case against the ban, my IP address was banned forever. Never, in any of my posts, did I swear, use vulgar language, or use hateful insults. The only "offensive" thing that these snowflakes seem to think I did was to have a different opinion than them.

The kicker, and the reason why I am making this post, is that the moderator then went back through the posts I made about the place I live, praising the ethnic food and the local diversity in the population, and deleted them. Now, that thread has been edited to paint an artificially negative image of my neighborhood's racial diversity, which is absolutely infuriating.

Summary, this website is a front for right-wing cultists and power-tripping neo-nazi moderators. Stay away if you value intelligent discussion, freedom of speech, and diversity of opinion.

I found over time, that while good posters exist there, it is littered with people with little-to-no insight on most subject matter. And do some of these folks ever come out of their bedrooms? People lashing out for actually suggesting British royal weddings is big news. Really? No where else have I ever come across anyone who cares: I thought that was pretty well established in regards to the harping on the mainstream media's coverage being out-of-touch with what Americans care about. Weird threads down to, "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" Wow- talk about a bunch of lifeless internet zombies. The sports forum has some weird threads as well: the absurd elementary comments: I mean c'mon guys, can we get some insight here beyond, "I hope my team wins the Super Bowl this year". "Jordan is better than Lebron... no he's not." Like a bunch of juvenile kids carrying pom poms. One month ago SCOTUS granted the states the right to legalize sports gambling. Monumental event that transcends just sports. Guess to date how many threads/comments it has warranted? ZERO. Zilch. None. Yet we get such juicy debate regarding why You Tube users always think refs cheated his/her favorite team. I rid of my account finally. I was losing brain cells every time I scoured the existing conversations.

Site is run by old Polish catholic fascists; mods are petty and vindictive; If you're an American who is used to basic principles of free speech and honest exchange of ideas, steer clear!

If you do spend time here, be prepared to deal with racist, sexist, or otherwise retrograde rants about the evils of liberalism. This is tolerated, in fact, encouraged. Don't expect any moderation of the outright hate that is the norm here.

That is, unless the mods disagree with your politics. If that's the case, be prepared to have your comments arbitrarily deleted, threads locked if they upset the mods' sensibilities, and infractions if you "hurt their feelings." "Trolling" is against the rules, and defined roughly as "upsetting the fat 75 year old Republican women who run the joint."

In short, be prepared to deal with being insulted repeatedly by conservatives, and then banned or given infractions for responding in-kind.

I would highly recommend you stay away from this message board unless you like conspiracy theories and mods that protect posters that lie and make up stuff on a daily basis. To say the mods are biased is not saying enough. Two mods in particular will target certain posters that tell the truth and protect the ones that post endless lies and conspiracy theories as if they are the truth. Their screen names are CaseyB and Ibginnie. Stay as far away from this message board as possible. Some of the notorious posters on the forum are BentBow, WaldoKitty and Dashrendar. If you attempt to prove them wrong you will either get suspended or kicked off the site entirely. You could get suspended for responding to a troll that you didn't even know was a troll. Free speech is discouraged unless you have the same beliefs and values of the mods and the crazy posters.

MY personal opinion, but City data appears shady and corrupt and their Mods appears to be biased and Ignorant. It APPEARS City Data only wants "fake data." My opinion, but kick backs for good reviews? I submitted my first review in a PROFESSIONAL manner of Fountain, Colorado and its declining subdivisions, mainly Countryside, that used to be a large planned Community. Evidently, "Fake Data," doesn't like being presented with the facts. They say a picture tells a thousand words. But don't take my word for it, drive around and see for yourself. (I-25/exit 128 to Countryside.

I looked at every name on every page of the sex offender registration you people put out, not one damn time did I see the name of the man that raped my 4y old. He's got more than one child rape case but with sites like this no would know what he is. I'm telling people that use this site for information stop don't waste your time or money they don't have it rite. People that pay for information about different types of things they do, if your trying to get the word out about a new business stay away from here. I'm the voice of my baby girl.

Chock full of hillbillies who consider every big city a cesspool. They constantly post threads about how horrible cities and everything they hate about cities (traffic, liberal policies, too many minorities, noise, taxes, etc.) Someone needs to tell these country bumpkins that it's called city data not country data. Nothing wrong with the country, but if you hate cities why go on a site called city data. Ironically many of the people posting are yokels who despise cities and everything about them.

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.