City-Data.com

Some of the local boards are have decent info, but it's overwhelming right-wing. Mods give all kinds of latitude to conservatives, but they will squash people of the left who push back. Loudest voices are always far right. It's a joke that some people are saying it's liberal. Maybe a few local board, IDK, but it's overwhelmingly right wing.

Everything about their policing policy is privatized. You aren't able to tell what you said wrong until it's too late. Your content may get deleted for any reason, usually for the very extreme broad reason of "personal attacks", which could include anything from disagreeing with someone (literally saying "I disagree") to calling out an obvious troll. The mods expect you to worship them. They banned me forever... which is funny because I couldn't care less as I'll just whip a new username and account in no time. And just out of spite, when I'm ready to take a sabbatical from the forum, I'll be sure to send the main mods a PM telling them who I really am as a way to say eff you.

The local forums are okay-ish. It's the politics forum that sucks. It's pretty much an echo chamber for the alt-right trolls, who've deluded themselves into thinking they're the good and peaceful guys. The forum is full of fear-mongering and boogeyman against BLM/Antifa/democrats. Say anything against the hive mind and they'll come down and swarm at you, even if you present them with proof. Currently going through a meltdown cause Trump lost. Avoid this forum, unless you want your brain to rot or have some fun with these weirdos.

There are a lot of regional sites for US states, these can be pretty good. Automotive section is also decent. There is also a politics forum, which can be pretty rough, as you might imagine. That's okay, but the moderation, at least the moderation by Ibginnie, is terribly biased, and is unprofessional. They are obviously a rabid conservative. They let all kinds of ugly misbehavior by conservatives go unchecked, but if you set one foot over the line with a liberal or anti-Trump view, you get an angry, snarling private message from moderator Ibginnie and you get your account suspended. That's one quiet, stealthy way of making sure that Trump looks good I guess, but they don't bill themselves as a bastion and defender of MAGA, they describe themselves as just a friendly, general purpose site. Definitely NOT fair and unbiased - rabid, Trump-defending dragons dwell here as moderators.

She's the most outright bias, old hag, moderator known to man. She uses her "opinion" on what constitutes a snarky post yet allows another poster to post whatever the hell they want if they agree with her.

What's hilarious is she responds to trolls (which is against TOS) with nonsense advice (she's ancient) and they never return. Every time.

Her messages to the "offender" are absolutely the rudest thing I've ever read. Ya know... the thing she's banning you for! Its an epidemic now. It's outright BS. She's on some sad, sad, power trip as if getting an "infraction" means a damn thing when you can just use another username. Hahah. Lady, you're pathetic.

F her and this place.

Have strange moderators who gloat about how they volunteer to mod city data. I called out a poster for making incorrect/false statements and my replies were deleted. The moderator in the city-vs-city forum said it was because the conversation had ended but why are you leaving the other posts up then? Someone literally replied with a fact-based list calling out the other poster (which is the comment I replied to) and my reply to that post was even deleted even though all I said was "great list love to see facts brought in". And they wonder why the site is bleeding users and has dying subforums.

Mind you this moderator named MJLO (mjlo) sent me a curse world filled DM that I was able to forward to senior moderators before given a ban. City-Data, you want your site to compete with reddit, telegram, discord? Allow moderators who aren't emotional

I posted my very first question in the politics forum: The topic was book banning and a few people groused that no one complains when leftists ban books. I asked what books the leftists banned. I got banned for life for being a troll. Wow! A member for 24 hours. What a colossal joke.

I visited City Data forums in order to obtain information on a possible relocation to the California desert. All I got were former residents of the state - who still troll the CA threads - telling me why that was a bad idea, and proclaiming why they've left (high taxes, homeless people, Governor Newsome, liberals, yadda yadda yadda). If they're so happy in the southern states they fled to, why visit the California forums to whine about what's going on in a state they no longer live in? The political forums were particularly virulent, with those threads on the media filled with complaints from Trump supporters about CNN, and others, hating on Trump. SMH. City Data is no better than Reddit and is, in my opinion, even worse in many ways. Definitely a site for old, pissed off White Republicans who hate the poor, women, and immigrants legal or not.

The site has useful forums, like the state/regional information. The politics forum is a right wing, reactionary troll factory, and if you're not a Trump bootlicker, your comments are likely to be deleted and any threads you start will probably be shut down. Refer to Trump supporters as a cult? You'll be banned. It's almost as if the reddit forum "the_donald", which has been shut down on the reddit site, has set up shop on City Data. Numerous posts daily from regular Trump worshipers posting disinformation from Breitbart, Daily Caller, and InfoWars are allowed to stand.

City-Data is owned, operated, frequented, and moderated by right-wing extremists and QAnon types, especially in its politics forum. Most members are intent on spreading utterly false and debunked information and conspiracy theories. If you point out the falsity of a posting, you are likely to be "reported" by the disinformer, and the complicit right-wing extremist moderator will summarily ban you for life. City-Data is truly one of the worst and most pathetic sites on the internet.

I was on the site for a few months and noticed certain members (politics forum) were constantly trolling, insulting, name calling, etc. According to the rules, I reported these posts. Yesterday, I received an infraction from ibginnie for trolling and hate speech (with no posts linked to tell me which ones qualified for that infraction). Today, there was a pop-up when I went to the site from Yak (?) saying I was permanently banned with no reason given. I cleared my cookies from that site and see they removed dozens of my posts. My username was RobtHansen.

Truly a bizarre site. Lesson learned - avoid citydata.

BTW, I read reviews here saying what a rightwing site it is. Well, I was a known conservative there and got banned so there's something else going on with the mods and whoever the hell yak is.