City-Data.com

Been on there for years. Just happened to mention I am Indigenous andI was threatened by Elkhunter, a moderator. Come to find out City Data is connected to the White Supremacist forum called Stormfront. Yep! You betcha! White Supremacists are now moderating City Data forum. I asked to be removed after I was warned for doing nothing wrong. They wouldn't remove me but decided to threaten me and let me know they are keeping their eye on me. Why? I have no clue. So, I decided to get myself banned by posting this and within seconds I was banned. Woohoo! "Go online, this is a racist forum with moderators being recruited by Stormfront, one of the most racist (white supremacist) forums in the country. I have been on here for many years and it wasn't until I mentioned I am Indigenous that I was threatened by two moderators that I am being watched now. I posted nothing wrong. My comments regarding the rights of Indigenous people were deleted. I am being threatened now by the moderators on this site. I implore you all now to go to the ACLU and complain about this site as quickly as possible. DO THE RESEARCH, Google "City Data and Stormfront". This post will most likely be removed very soon."

What's there to say that hasn't been said a dozen times. This forum is for MAGA crazies. That is all.

Coddles their resident trolls and the jingoism is off the charts. Stormfront substitute and proud of it.

I first joined CD in 2007 when I was interested in travelling to other states and was looking for tips on best places to visit. It used to be brilliant, over the years this forum has slipped into a rabid pro Russia, pro MAGA and anti anything else disinformation hive. There is no space for healthy discussion or debate, the politics forum is particularly vicious and displays disgraceful behaviour with almost no moderation. When you point out something is false - no matter how politely - you are insulted into submission by an angry mob of around 20 prolific posters who seem to spend all day doing this to everyone. I am pretty sure it's only 3 or 4 people with multiple accounts as all comments are normally around 3-4 minutes apart and not remotely randomised, when you look at their profiles they are all "friended" - it's like some sort of conservative mafia that post multiple threads to ensure as many people see them as possible in order to spread their disinformation.
You will be called a democrat, an idiot, stupid, a member of ANTIFA or BLM. You will be accused of hating your country, of being a shill for Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden if you suggest that you will not vote republican. You will be accused of having TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) if you dare suggest that you disagree with any of the posters - even if it's not about Trump, it always ends up there. Nearly all threads end up with the prolific posters steering them towards 5 or 6 conspiracy theories. You can be on a thread about healthcare and it will end up being about something like the election.
Currently, disinformation is spreading on there like wildfire about the Ukrainian war. It's distressing to see a forum I really enjoyed go this way. I have logged out and will not be returning.
I doubt that City-Data sees these reviews, but on the off chance that they do, my advice would be to step-up. Sort out some proper and balanced moderation or you will be losing many more normal people and just be left with the crazies and the bots.

The mods are some of the most sensitive people on the net, how and why they are moderating a site is beyond me. I believe most of the mods are employees of http://www.advameg.com/ because City data is like their most important site that they own. I also believe that for certain mods any thing said about illegals or homeless will end you up with an automatic ban. I've had friends banned just because they would ask questions about the moderating process there and there wasn't even anything in the slightest to indicate anything offensive or crude, just an honest question, which leads me to believe that the MODS on city-data are SUPER SENSITIVE. I don't get how this site hasn't been sued multiple times for some of the stuff they allow to go on.

The reason I say they tend to favor liberal ideas is because they are based in Illinois and you can tell the MODS have a liberal ideal about them. Plus I have seen where if you have a conservative point of view your post will get taken down or you will receive an infraction.

Maybe if we can get all of the people that has been wronged by city-data in a class action lawsuit against them, maybe we get some retribution.

Edit:

I forgot to add to the fact that most of the information that you get from this site is very misleading. Their data is not accurate and any information that you get from another poster isn't accurate or entirely true. People are only allowed to post somewhat positive comments about a city. If you say anything negative or try to tell the truth about the city you risk getting banned or getting infractions. Idk how they haven't been sued just for this alone.

Poor judgment and lots of "ARROGANCE" from Mods and Admin. I asked what Interrupt the flow meant and got banned

Websites and the contents posted belong to the company that owns it. They set the rules. I've gone on it on and off (mostly off) for about three years. I go on it for a while, get a demerit for posting something. I may continue using it (I'm old enough to not care about demerits) and ultimately and consistently get fed up with it and quit.

I was given a demerit yesterday. Part of the reason was due to not staying on subject in the thread. Another part of the reason was something about religion. The reality:
1) I responded to people who took the original post and turned it into something it was not really related. I stated in my responses (and there were many) that the commenter was not writing anything related to the topic and I was going to reel the comment in and segue it to the post.
2) The next response to the post (the OP asked if homosexuality was an abnormality) was about God and sin. My posts were on later pages. The religious comment was left with many people responding to it. They were left.

I went on the following day and told the inconsistent moderator other posts (like the first religious response) should be removed as well. I also attempted to remove my other posts. It was enough and I had a memory of why I stayed off city-data. So, I told them they should get rid of my ID and delete my posts.

If the moderators were consistent, it wouldn't matter. But they appeared to take a dart and toss it at my clean and factual responses. Free speech isn't the issue because they're allowed to control the site as they see fit but they're doing a poor job at it and have done a poor job.

They don't like attacks or name-calling and that's prevalent throughout.

I've been a member of this site since '11. I recently got an infraction for "trolling" and a 20 day suspension.

My crime? Defending myself after getting ganged up on by a bunch of apparent dog haters in a thread about a mailman spraying tear gas in a FENCED in dogs face.

Animal abuse is one of those things that triggers immense rage inside me, I'll put that right out front. And when I read posts that condone straight out putting a "hatchet through its head" (this particular post was by a member named Soviet--and went undeleted), yes... I am likely to get a little blunt. Other posters were saying things like "I'd just shoot the dog" etc and I was completely appalled.
I posted that perhaps this mailman needed to find another job and was immediately ganged up on by The Clique.

They said horrible things to me that triggered not-so-nice memories of high school bullying so I left the thread when I spotted a thread about cyberbullying and found sanctuary there UNTIL the bullies stalked my profile and recent posts and actually FOLLOWED me to my sanctuary thread to continue to berate and pick on me.

I was expecting the mods to follow their own TOS, in particular the "personal attacks" definition which states that telling another poster they need "psychiatric help" is bona-fide criteria for which one particular bully, "LuvsArkansas" violated several times and nothing was done.

As a consequence I felt I had no choice but to defend myself against a bunch of posters that assumed they knew everything about me and continued the bullying until I was actually in tears. I left to take a break and when I came back in several hours later I found I'd been banned for 20 Days.

City Data is breaking the law by not only allowing cyberbullying but CONDONING it. I've never seen a bigger group of horrible people then the bullies on that forum.

I, like so many others, had a really awful experience with this site. I really don't understand why it dominates so many internet search engine results. That's how I got sucked into it, and apparently that's how most people get sucked into it. Once you're registered, you're stuck there. Unless of course you get permanently banned from the site, as I thankfully was. There is no self-cancellation option.

The forums are dominated by biased, censor-happy moderators and a handful of obnoxious, (seemingly) mentally ill users who seem to have no actual life outside of the forums and their relentless and constant posting of nonsensical, amateurish, misinformative, "my city/state/opinion is better than yours" tripe... day after day. Sometimes even hour after hour. Many of them are intolerant and can be downright nasty, though typically juvenile and (in my experience at least) ineffectual in their attempts to insult and belittle other users. It is often reminiscent of the comments section under youtube clips, only it's typically the same 10-15 usual suspects. Many of these "usual suspects" seem to pull favor with the mods, and regularly get away with personal attacks, racist-sexist-nationalist-homophobic rhetoric, and blatant trolling. Meanwhile, other, much more innocuous users providing legitimate information or seeking meaningful, civil discussion are reprimanded in the form of "infractions", and (if they're lucky enough) banned from posting.

The forums are like an alternate reality where logic and actual facts are tossed aside, and replaced with opinions that border on fantasy, and are presented as "fact". Stereotypes are thrown around abundantly, and users are constantly trying to one-up each other. There is a real "group-think" herd mentality that exists among long-time users and the mods who enable them, and it's a code of behavior that one dares not question if one is a new user. I was often scolded for bringing actual facts to the table.

It is a truly bizarre site (the forums part of it) that seems to serve no real purpose, other than to allow ill-tempered, mentally unstable, delusional creeps a platform to spew vitriol, snark, and wild, outlandish misinformation in order to compensate for their personal insecurities and lack of being in touch with reality. And as others have pointed out, there seems to be an underlying extreme-right wing tone in most (but not all) of the forums. It should be known, and I can't stress this enough, that if you're seeking actual information about a place, be it a city, state, or region... that this is quite possibly the WORST site to look for it. All you're going to find is a lot of wildly varying opinions, many of which have no basis in reality and are mainly a lot of boostering, which often devolves into bickering and heated pissing matches that often veer WAY off topic. Avoid at all costs. I have even since blocked C-D from my search engine results