City-Data.com

I joined this site to learn more about cities and travel but was bullied by other users, some American but mostly British. I responded to the bullying by telling them to grow up and after they continued I complained to the site admins. I log on to see if they responded to my complaints only to found out I had been banned! What for defending myself against bullies? It was THEIR fault but I the 'victim' gets banned? I have been on thousands of websites since the boom of the internet way back in the 90s and been on some great forum sites others really bad. I have never visited a forum site in my life anywhere near as bad as city data. Also most of the information on the main city data site is very inaccurate and out of date especially in relation to religion and crime rates. My job requires me to work with statistics and it is all incorrect on that site. If you want a fun site where you don't deal with horrible people and the admins on the site, the people you are supposed to go to for help are actually causing the problem then stay far way from the S**t hole of a site that is city data. I hope that whole company falls to the f'n ground!

I joined City-Data forums back in 2008 and it appears that I may have been permanently banned for life, finally now in 2022. Honestly, good riddance. From around 2008 to 2015, the forums were generally fun to participate in and there was a wide spectrum of opinions and viewpoints and somehow we ultimately got along. But ever since around 2015, the site started to become increasingly right wing and now in 2022 it's basically a right wing dictatorship. It's not just the Politics & Controversies forums only; it's EVERY forum and subforum. Literally every thread devolves into an explosive argument, going back and forth with ultra right wing members and there's no end to it. The problem is that it's balanced very much in favor of right wingers and they will EAT YOU ALIVE with their garbage conspiracies and always inject politics into EVERY discussion. It is insane.

The forums are more stressful to participate in than ever, because of the incessant right wing influence in every thread. Racism is RAMPANT and seems to go unchecked. Most of the members are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist, religious and bigoted in any way you can imagine. They love Trump. They absolutely love Ron DeSantis and it just permeates every thread.

The moderators are ruthless and unreasonable. I have been temporarily suspended MANY times for stupid crap or "trolling."

I feel liberated to have been banned and have NO intention of ever returning.

-- nep321

While the state forums are ok at best (mostly realtors trying to get your business or people who are right-wing trying to tell you everything negative about cities due to being a Democrat city), the real terrible part or the site is the politics forum. After a recent poll of member's ages, it is mostly people who are 50+. A lot of them post really extreme right wing views, including saying that slavery was ok in the South, black people are lazy, and all Democrats must be killed. Members do post a lot of misinformation from sites that were confirmed to post incorrect news. If you attempt to point out their flaws with their argument with evidence, the mods (who are also very right-wing) will ban you outright with the comment "troll."

Some of the comments included that the fall of america is due to many homosexuals can adopt children. I wish I was making this stuff up, but I'm not. The state forums once again aren't that bad, you just need to be careful from the ones who are pushing their agenda on you. Members like Rachel976, TheGoodTheBadTheUgly, Oldglory are some of the posters that post extreme Alt-Right talking points. Some of the posts from Rachel976 are offensive to someone like me who have Jewish heritage (including posting stuff like would be blacks be happy if they get a money check from the government due to slavery, and also saying that the Jews must fight/kill Arabs and vote for Republicans if they know what's good for them). Then again, the site is trash except for those who love to spread lies.

The first time i responded to a member who had inquired about the hospital, Christus Saint Vincents. I was a patient there before? And later that year took a contract there to work. The weird part? When i posted my observations as an observer, The moderator Poncho M. Deleted my posts after i was flamed off by forum members DagneyT63, and Greater Santa Fe. Poncho M. Deleted their extremely aggressive remarks telling me to "go back to New York City", and personal attacking.

Poncho M. Cleaned it up by deleting my posts. Then had Dagney leave a post for everyone to see that stated: "I hope you find happiness here". Seriously? That was the weirdest crap i've ever seen in a forum.

I came back a year later to reply to a new member about Christus? And guess who immediately deleted that post? Poncho M, the moderator. I was pm'd that i had an infraction, and that i was trolling.

Well, basically, i'm banned from City Data, because i sent a PM back to "Poncho" letting him know where he could put that infraction. And other colorful language. I'm sure he probably broke a fingernail trying to get me banned right away.

Me being a traveling Native American - I don't have to "go back to NYC". Hell, i only worked there any way.

Stay away from that website. If you have to tell the truth about Santa Fe, NM? There's a guarantee it will be moderated, flamed, deleted, or you'll get banned.

I asked a simple question. Any success with dating apps/sites & which ones. I was a bit fed up with my attempts - where I live welfare & addiction is rampant so online seemed a better bet - and my question was a blunt. As I had found, after all, on the dating sites is the men who approached were predominantly unsavory. As I put on this forum, most of the men came across as too cheap to go to a bar & try lame pickup lines or for that matter just hire a prostitute (the amount of men on one app [supposedly a good one, eharomny] initially asking to meet up & "chat" instead of asking questions to build rapport first was downright offensive and/or online creeper sort if you want honesty).

Get this. That post was deleted. I've been on this forum on & off for a while and seen all sorts of stupid and/or offensive posts. At best they are closed. I've yet to see one deleted, even a post that was quite obviously by some mental case was simply closed. So I take it the site owner or one of the moderators - or the entire lot on this forum - are of the same deadbeat loser creepier quality as the initial contacts on the dating apps I found so offputting. Given the dismal relationship advise most likely.

I have to say, I've spent the last two days trying to find the moderators and ask why they ban me for life. I haven't found a way to contact them so all I can do is give an honest review of my experience. I wrote my opinions to others which were only about 5 posts before they ban me for life, without an explanation. I went to my account and it said across the page you are ban for trolling, the period of time before it will be lifted is NEVER. I had only opened my account on 4/28/21 and I was ban on 4/30/21. The only comments I saw were right wing Trumpers. I never said anything other than correcting what I felt was wrong information by these racists. During Biden's state of the union address they were using foul language about Pelosi and Kamala Harris so I corrected them by saying how immature they were appearing. I have no proof because I can't get hold of the moderators. I can't even find where to contact them. I'm, I guess, considered liberal but I find nothing wrong with that. I'm also a Wildlife biologist and veterinary technologist with 50 years experience. I don't know what these people are afraid of but it's clearly something. My first post was about my experience in Fort Worth Texas in 1978 at a dairy where an undocumented immigrant was killed by a white woman, and the dairy never turned it in. They just buried him in Weatherford Texas----his name was Ceverio. I don't know if that's why I was ban or not. I just don't know.

Shocked at the way this site is run. Shared the horrific experience of moving to Rochester MN and having our apartment filled with heavy meth fumes from an adjoining apartment. The police and city inspector, and, worse, the mayor refused to do anything, the doctors at Mayo Clinic and Olmsted refused to put it in documentation or test for it, and the apartment management at Technology Park Apartments covered up for all the drug activity they hosted rather than keeping it safe as the manager, Jacklyn Hill, says she does when talking to prospective clients. This place is so corrupt, so citydata.com banned me for saying what I experienced. That's relevant because I checked citydata.com before moving myself and my family here. The fact that they've banned other people who told the truth about Rochester means that they were on the side of the criminals that gave me what appears to doctors as lung cancer, though I have never smoked or stayed around second hand smoke. Now, for the first time, I have asthma and cataracts that I definitely did not have before this. If citydata.com had allowed honest reviews, my son and I would have been spared the cancer risks, loss of everything we owned other than our now very contaminated vehicle, and two years so far of income due to physical injuries. Both the city and the medical clinics here are tainted with corruption. Yes, there are some good people and good things about the city, but when people learn what happened to us, they don't seem at all surprised. If citydata.com masquerades as a source for valuable information about a city and what it's like to live there but censors negative truths by banning truthtellers, they are fraudulent.

The mods of CD seem like teenagers drunk on power. They will ban you forever for anything. There are much better forums out there.

I'm a left leaning centrist and I would get modded for comments that flagged comments by conservatives if not the alt-right that are not anywhere near as bad as others by conservative posters or alt-right posters. These posts would not get flagged whether deleted or mod edited by when it comes to "name calling/personal attacks." The forum often will delete posts voting "copywrite infringement" yet will not inform posters why posts or entire threads were removed.

As a liberal posting reporting a claim, you have to hope you get the right mod to review it. Ibginnie or Casey are clearly not fair. The moderators are across the political spectrum (even if most are conservative or alt-right leaning) BUT inconsistent in what flagged posts are modded if not deleted. This website sucks and has become a cesspool of conservatives, hardcore libertarians, alt-right and pro-Trump posters with strawman arguments that complain or personal attack when moderates and liberals come back with facts and realities. I would suggest avoiding the forum if you aren't like minded.

Yes I have been suspended several times but I see a lot of right leaning posters who should be with me but aren't.

Exactly what the title says. The place is just full of a bunch of racist trolls and calling out that behavior will get you banned.

I basically said California has the highest GDP and pays the most Fed taxes, which subsidize poorer southern states. They banned me for trolling.

POC is a heaven for midlife crisis men who have jumped on the right wing bandwagon who feel they have been sidelined by younger generation. Look at the Jan 6th rioters mostly middle aged obese men who found a new calling in life right wing extreme politics. This is why the are on POC because they are using their home PC mostly CD is not a platform that works well on a tablet, or smartphone. I find mostly they are really cynical when Trump is finely forgotten about they will be left wondering what they have accomplished for the last 5 years. The rest of the forums I find okay but MODS act like little gods recently I was on the cooking subform talking about smoking meats next thing I know my thread is moved to home. My only enjoyment now is trolling the right wing on POC get on there and make fun of their crackpots running for office when they lose. When Biden won in 2020 many of the most loudmouths got so mad they left POC they were not election denires. The ones left behind are mostly election conspiracy deniers now.

I think there are probably about two dozen people actually ON this site, but each has about 2 dozen screen names and will pretend to be others just to add firepower to their wackadoodle opinions. Everyone will admit they are a baby boomer who hates anyone who is not a baby boomer pretty readily. If you ask a question in your geographic location forum, one of the 2 dozen people who post on this site will "thread stalk" you if you post anywhere else in a different forum and refer to your unrelated question to try and draw some conclusion about who you are and your general life problems. And don't even read the Relationships section unless you want your blood pressure to rise with all the complete nonsense spouted about women.

The threads usually start out okay, but by page two, there is baiting, blaming and thread hijacking. CD posters demand more information, and if you demur for the sake of privacy, expect some name calling or accusations that you are 'making things up'. Expect to hear lots of hate for education, liberals, anyone who gets pregnant after 35, anyone who lives in a city and shares a wall with a neighbor, anyone who has an HOA, anyone who believes in gun control, people who think purebred dog breeding is kinda strange and pointless, people who would dare limit the number of dogs who can live in a small space, people who have good relationships but one specific item they want advice on (the advice is always "YOU NEED TO LEAVE THAT LOSER!" or "This is totally your fault. You are so controlling. Just be grateful that you have a relationship") people who don't like granite counters, people who buy a new car, people who pay attention to their grooming, people who have trouble with their parents, people who DON'T have trouble with their parents, people who are in management positions, people who don't quit their jobs and people who want to live somewhere vaguely popular and nice. This is, in short, the largest collection of disenfranchised trolls ever to grace an internet forum.

But its a little troll fiefdom for those 24 people and each of their 2 dozen screen personalities and names. Enter at your own risk.