City-Data.com

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.

It's been mentioned that the Moderator (moderating, indeed.) Ibginnie (may be a male using a female name), is troublesome, habitually deleting perfectly innocuous posts while leaving posts with truly hateful remarks untouched. It's not understood the rationale of doing this, so it just means the so-called Mod is showing favoritism to their cronies. I didn't even know what was going on at first, feeling like being in the Twilight Zone.

Otherwise, the site can be enjoyable with many topics and some posters being knowledgeable and humorous, enjoying the interaction with, yet as said, others can make things unpleasant, those who this mod appears to side with. It would be nice to visit a site like this run by rational, impartial adults instead, which all the "normal posters" would be able to enjoy.

If I could give this site a negative rating I would. Do not venture into the politics forum unless you are a rabid Trump supporter or ibginnie will make your life a living hell. I received a 90 day infraction for asking a Trump supporter to back up his claims with facts. I was deemed "rude" and put in the corner for three months as a result. Meanwhile, the posts calling me a "libtard" and $#*!ed for being a Democrat are still up on the site and that poster starts 5 to 10 threads a day using such derogatory language against anyone who disagrees with Trump without any fear of reprisal. It's too bad, because there are some intelligent people on that forum who are looking for good political discussion, but that is not allowed by ibginnie. Only Trump sycophants are allowed to speak freely there. CD's P&OC has become ibginnie's personal cesspool.

Very poorly moderated; moderators are ignorant of science. It's the only message board I ever posted on that didn't require the person making a claim to prove their claim if asked. Mods think everything is a "discussion" including scientifically validated (or invalidated) information.

Has lofty TOS but mods themselves don't follow them in posting to members, e.g. make personal attacks on members. Also very erratic enforcement and much favoritism.

No one should advertise on this board; do not give them the income.

Reviewers pointed out, the white supremacist problem. Another one, is that you can't criticize big pharma, dentistry, science taught in schools and universities etc. (You get ridiculed, if you do).
But, the white supremacism tends to go with narrow-mindedness or anti-visionary mindset. Racists have low intelligence and massive egos. Narcissism.
Increasingly, over the years, political and racial stuff has crept into forums, of websites that weren't made for it. Politics and racism, are two of the most toxic, distracting, time-wasting things, to the human mind.

... especially those that don't march in lockstep to Liberals ideas. I find the moderators are quick to let posters derail any topic that pin Liberals in a corner and exposes non-rational responses. In particular, any reasonable talk about illegal immigration (just contrary to a Liberal viewpoint) will almost assuredly result in a ban. It could be a good site if an open dialogue was allowed. But they're not interested in a civil conversation and pretty much encourage any $#*!fest that supports Liberal viewpoints. If you do get banned, simply use another IP address and you'll be fine. But honestly, why waste the time. They don't encourage honest, open conversation so you would be better off finding another forum.

It's unfortunate. I joined city-data to check on some potential states to consider moving to. I didn't find them particularly helpful but it was interesting.

As the seditious conspiracy continues in this country, I was attempting to post the truth about what's happening here. Such as carlson going to Hungary to do his fox "commentary". Then we saw CPAC go to Hungary and Orban (dictator) coming to the US. "Republicans" and CPAC embracing Orban, the autocrat as he turns that country into a minority-white christian nation. So, all I so is state fact. But it's bombarded with extreme, right-wing conspiracy theorists who are allowed to propagate lies. I did get knocked off as a troll while the pretty insane lying is allowed to continue.

So, thanks to Sitejabber, for allowing me to see that I'm not the only one out here who sees city-data allowing right-wing extremists to rant but conveniently blocks out the truth. What a country.

If you hate everybody who isn't lily white, feel that the wimmin folks should stay in their place and that all Hispanics be shot on sight just in case - then this is the site for you. I don't mind a good discussion even if it gets a little rough around the edges, but the mods are so far to the right and enforce their POV so rigorously that you can get banned for typing a post with your left hand - I kid you not. I once even received an infraction for writing "sic transit gloria mundi" (Latin for thus passes the glory of the world). You are allowed to post only in 'Merican. Enter at your own risk!

I have been on and off this forum for a few years now. Every time I ask a question the response is poor. A blatant display of rather limited IQ. Despite how the question is written in clear English & detailed enough a teenager or younger could understand. That's the general forums.

Then you get into the actual "city" areas and it's just a bunch of vagabonds pretending that they actually live in these cities. They wish. I've lived in a few major cities in America and some of the posts relating to these cities it's like wth you've never lived there, you're googling information.

And politics. Bunch of inbred slackjaws beating their chests like gorillas & figuratively pissing in corners like dumb dogs saying America is my land, I get nowhere & contribute little to nothing to society but me own it.

Mass mindedness at it's best. You would think cd would want their members to be informed and educated on current issues... but cd calls that "trolling." I was banned for stating the truth about Memphis... it's a ghetto! The 2nd most violent city in the U.S. according to the FBI. Mods must have political or finical ties to Memphis... or just enjoy sending sheep to the slaughterhouse. This is a wanna be reddit... don't waste your time!

All the rumors are true. This is a meeting place for racist rednecks. Anyone who challenges the paranoid lunatic conspiracy theories is labeled a communist and immediately banned. Breeding ground for the most extreme elements of our society. Safe space for the most ignorant and uneducated dregs of society.

Regardless of what forum you go within City-Data, there's tons of biases in posts that mostly have an extreme right wing talking point (all state sections of CD and the other parts as well) I saw posts where people attempt to talk counterarguments of the extreme Right-Wing talking posts get quickly deleted and/or banned. The Politics and Other Controversies section of CD forums is where most of the posts of the forums take place... and there's tons of "wonderful" extreme Right-Wing subject threads like these:

*Yea Baby Floor The Gas Pedal! Oklahoma drivers now have immunity from hitting rioters in streets

*Masks still don't work - new study, major media completely ignores

*72% of black children born out of wedlock

*Rules for white people when visiting the Floyd memorial?

Yup... unless you want to be in this Echo Chamber... I recommend to avoid it like the plague.

I have to disagree with a lot of other peoples reviews stating that City Data is all conservative and Republican. Some of their moderators/admins must be the opposite of that.

I have been banned a few different occasions for reasons that are unclear. They just say I am a troll, a racist, or a racist troll. That is not "conservative" dialogue. It is progressive immature Liberal types.

All in all, it is a great format for a message board but the owners and site managers are childish at best.

Unsure why they allow long time posters to post as they wish and I am banned and labeled a racist troll or whatever it is they say.

Time to try Reddit instead.

The city-data political sub-forum ---as well as most of their forums increasingly over the years--- is rampant with radicalized Trump Republicanism and myriad posters who seem to be on a mission committed to the wholesale destruction of the United States' political order. These posters--- who wholeheartedly advocate against American democracy, our institutions and the rule of law--- belittle, lie about and threaten those of opposing views, and then are coddled by the moderators. Posters supplying facts and credible supporting documentation are suspended and their posts removed, and then warned in scathing private messages that if they persist the suspension will be a permanent ban... Truth and facts are considered trolling on city-data.com.
This website and its mods appear hell-bent on stifling and eradicating those who credibly and decently try to support & preserve U.S. democracy in posts that push back on the extremism and violent ideology that proliferates on city-data.com.