City-Data.com

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.

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.

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.

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.

Asked for advice and was shocked at the blatant bigotry and promotion of racist ideas. This site is truly the worst the internet has to offer. What makes them even more dangerous is that they hide their true intentions and pretend to be a fair and balanced forum. At least other far right forums admit their intentions. At this moment members are arguing that Islam was the cause of slavery in Southern Confederate states. Not kidding.

Some of the forum posters are great (especially for my state). But prepare for a trip into 1984 if you use C-D. Moderators are psycho sometimes. It just oozes out of them. If you think outside the box a tiny bit, you get in trouble. It's really sick. I hear people complain about its racist mere rates, and while I haven't personally seen that, I don't doubt that its true... I have seen what jerks they are. Do not think they are all conservatives, though: I am conservative and they hammer me, for nonsensical reasons. Honestly, it's all just about the power trip. (The statistical section seems so-so. I rarely use it).

Before you use City Data do your background research on the owner. It's easy enough to google his name and read up on him and his previous "businesses." He clearly has ulterior motives for gathering data on users and discussions. Be careful about what you share about yourself on this site.

Second everything said below about the site's leanings towards extreme right wing propaganda is true. City Data is not what it appears to be on the surface. Again, do your research on the site's owner and if you feel you absolutely *must* join, do so with extreme caution, even if it seems like a place full of people "just like me."

The moderator on the NM and Santa Fe forums has little tolerance for posts that bash the city or anything about it. You can get in trouble for warning people about crime, depressed wages, the local hospital, anything. That's true on quite a few of the city and state forums, actually. Real estate agents who are long-term members have a lot of influence, so many of the city/state sub-forums are set up to boost the region, to support the RE industry. The moderators back that up.