Marvin P.

This website and company is SUCH TRASH. I won't even get into how they conduct business, as others have said that, but just USING THE SITE is trash! It is one of the WORST and poorly run websites I have ever had the displeasure of using! I recently posted an ad on there to find a roommate for my apartment. There are so many broken features on the website, I legitimately can't list them all. So I'll only name the major ones:

1) the upload photos section is broken and *requires* three cover pictures at all times, but also won't let you delete pictures or add new ones! You get an "error" message each time, so literally the only time you can add pictures to an ad is on the very first time creating it. You cannot edit photos you have on there because the three cover pictures requirement makes this impossible. You almost always get an error message. Not to mention, the section uses a Flash uploader and isn't basic. Why use Flash if you're not even going to work right!

2) The dropdown menu for contacting doesn't work. It is also broken. You can put "email only" all you want and it'll just default to "call" instead. I DON'T want random people calling me!

3) They automatically put your phone number out there on the ad. There is no way for them to change the settings for this and I did NOT want my direct line made public! I don't remember if providing a phone number was mandatory or not, but this is made even worse if it is AND they automatically make it public without your permission! The only way you'd be able to get around this is to give them a fake number or a business-only number. They assume that you're a realtor or something.

4) You can't edit a lot on the website, only this time, I mean, they deny you the option, not the website is too broken and buggy to actually work right. You can't put in the specific neighborhood you're in, for example. So many things are "choose from this dropdown menu." The reason these are always a bad idea is because if your info is missing from the dropdown menu, you're out of luck! Such as my case here. They wanted me to choose what neighborhood my apartment was in, but it's not listed in the menu. So the best you can do is choose the one closest to it. But when people ask about the apartment and you tell them it's actually not as close as they assumed it was, they get mad at YOU! When they should be mad at Trulia for being such a broken mess of a website! So many things are based on the pre-selected dropdown menu list, as well! You're SOL if what you want isn't on that list, and so many things are likely to not be on their dropdown menu list, like your neighborhood, type of housing, or even city name.

5) Other features on the site are broken and don't work. You can put "no smoking," "electric separate," "water included," "no pets," and other things, and it will still always default to the first thing in the menu. Essentially, you can change the amenities and features section on the ads!

6) Customer service is non-existent. I contacted them through email three days into having the ad run to tell them about all these broken and glitchy features and literally no one ever got back to me. They try to hide their actual customer service phone number and don't make it public, but I found it on GetHuman. Turns out, t hey deactivated that as well. So there is literally no way to get in contact with a human agent for the company based on what they give you. To at least tell them about the 1,0001 broken bugs and glitches on their awful website!

7) Trulia automatically links all your posts to their sister sites, including Hotpads without your permission! Yet ironically, your account isn't linked to these sites either. So to deactivate them over there, you'd have to sign up for Hotpads and their sister sites, too! However, the main problem is, them not even ASKING you to link them to these other, lower-quality sister sites, as well! Some of the worst people I had contact me were from Hotpads.

8) Trulia's log-in system is awful. They allow you, like other sites, to create an email log in, and log in with Facebook or Google. Yet none of these various log in methods will be linked to you! NO other site works like this! They sync all your methods of log in to one account. But here, logging in with Google makes a complete SEPERATE account than your email log in. Same with Facebook. This wouldn't be a big deal if they didn't constantly spam you to log in with Facebook or Google (to sell your data, most likely). And yet, when you finally do give in and log into the system via Google or Facebook, it makes a NEW account and completely separates you from your "real" email log in account! This is stupid beyond words!

These are just the major problems that come to mind. There are dozens of other more minor issues in the site, as well. It clearly was not programmed to be user friendly, or even tested. The number of bugs and issues on the site are insane! And as I said, this isn't even getting into their shady business practices. This is just fromt he experience of a user who has used the site for three weeks and who's life has been made SOLELY due to how broken and buggy the website is. I have people calling me at 3am, and other random strangers bothering me at all times of the day; people who are highly unfit to live in the apartment, because the site decided to make your info public without your permission and is too broken to have basic features like Contact Method and Photo Gallery work correctly. I legitimately, 100% wish whoever programmed this piss-porr website would be fired. This is unexcusable and I wish I never signed up for this horrible company's broken mess of a website.

Reddit, on paper, seems like it'd be an excellent site. And as it's core function, it is. However, Reddit SUCKS primarily, if not exclusively, due to its community.

Reddit functions like an online newspaper in principle, where news and funny stuff can be seen online so you can say you "read it" on Reddit. It is divided into different 'subreddits,' which range from any topic under the sun, from news, funny stuff, movies, TV, sports, and cars, to adult material, or even hateful subs (though Reddit has slowly started to take away any subreddits that go against PC culture and restricting free speech; no matter how unpopular it may be). Reddit, as an idea, seems like a good site, and it would be.

However, Reddit, for whatever reason, is the hub for some of THE most immature, mentally childish and weak adults on all of the internet. And by "immature" and "mentally childish and weak," I don't just mean your standard internet trolls.

Reddit is a site filled with both extremes of the worst kind of people in society, and they are all coexisting peacefully on the same site. On one end of Reddit, you'll have the racist, Neo-nazi, fat-shaming, cruel people filled with pure hatred and contempt. These people are easy to spot though and are the fewer of Reddit's community. The MAJORITY of Reddit, however, is filled with far-left-leaning, 'progressive,' feminist SJW's (social justice warriors); the type of upper middle-class college-educated Westerners who find EVERYTHING offensive and want to be Orwellian social fascists who bully others that don't kowtow to their progressive super-political-correctness newsspeak. These people make up about 60-70% of Reddit's user base, at bare minimum. The types who do not respect free speech and other people's opinions.

This is a problem because most of the moderators and admins of Reddit are the SJW "everything is offensive, racist and misogynist!" types. To put it bluntly, Reddit is VERY anti-free-speech. Reddit has a more intellectual counterpart online called Quora and Quora, once upon a time, used to be respected. Until the anti-free-speech progressives took it over. Reddit, however, is a community not only filled with feminists and social justice warriors, but somehow, also filled with the very types of people SJW's *think* everyone else in society are: ACTUAL racists, sexists, and hateful people. As stated though, these people are obvious; the SJW's aren't.

Because Reddit's community is so toxic and narrow-mindedly far-left, free speech and expression is not only discouraged, but literally punishable. Reddit has a system in place that will reward you for parroting popular opinions and punish you for saying things outside the status quo. This is called Karma and the more karma you have, the more popular your opinions will be on Reddit and the more they'll be seen. The less karma you have, the less you'll be able to participate on Reddit. Karma is upvoted or downvoted by the users and their reactions to your comments. But basically, it's just one giant echo chamber of parroting opinions. Thus, creating the perfect environment to go against stimulating opinion and discussion and encourage the same old idiotic viewpoints of the lowest common denominator. Of course, karma may not even matter as one moderator alone may be enough to outright ban you from a subreddit. That's right; one person in power can decide your viewpoints or opinions "offend" them, and ban you for it. Whether it's that of a conservative view, an atheist view, a Christian view, or even someone who likes dirty jokes!

Some of the worst subreddits include /r/OffMyChest (SJW heaven), /r/AskWomen (modern feminist heaven filled with man-hating harpies), /r/feminism (self explanatory), /r/Tall (a height subreddit filled with narcissists over six feet tall), /r/Short (a height subreddit, but SUPER negative and depressing), /r/RateMe (a shallow attractiveness subreddit mostly used by teenagers to feed their ego if attractive or fuel they're depression if they're anything less than a 9 in looks), /r/AmIHot (the same as the one before), /r/News (political echo chamber filled with idiots parroting the same hateful garbage), and /r/Funny (painfully unfunny memes and internet trash). This is just to name a small few.

To summarize, Reddit is a good site in theory, but its community is filled with literally some of the worst, most contemptible people on the entire internet and is only rivaled by Tumblr as far as crazy people go. It's a mostly negative website, with very few open-minded or respectable people, and using it to interact with others will only frustrate you if you're not already as immature and as sh! Tty of a human being as the typical Reddit user. It can be addictive on some subreddits like /r/AskReddit, /r/WouldYouRather, /r/ShowerThoughts, and /r/DoesAnyoneElse. But Reddit's negative community far outweighs its good parts.

IncreasingShoes sells footwear with elevated insoles to help all us men under six feet tall feel a little better about our height in an often superficial society. However, they lie about their products. Don't order any shoes from this website.

Other than the standard price - which is typically at least twice the cost of a normal pair of shoes, so like $70 to $140 and up - their shoes simply DON'T elevate as they promise. When emailing their Support department, these are the exact words she said to me: "Since only the heel part is elevated, height increase will only be around 1 to 2 inches. This is very similar to how women's high heels work." Only they don't mention that on the site anywhere you could possibly see it, if at all. Not to mention, the shoes aren't even high quality. They'll only last you about seven or eight weeks before they fall apart at the seams.

So much for being tall and respected. I only wanted to reach a respectable, normal height of at least 6'1", so a 2" to 2 & 1/4" boost wasn't asking for too much. Guess I'm going to have to find a more reputable shoe site that can elevate my height in public to that of all of my fully grown peers. I only hope I can help others with this review to avoid making the same mistake with this shoddy company as I did. Use another company besides this one if you need some height elevating footwear.

This site is basically no better than Craigslist when it comes to dating. It is simply a mess. Let's go over it.

Okay, first of all, the site is UGLY. It hasn't been updated since 2004, it seems. Secondly, the site is not very good when it comes to using it. The Advanced Search is broken and you can't save search perimeters on it, unlike other dating sites Advanced Search. The site will often clutter you with users faces, most of whom have stupid pictures of themselves, like duckface or flipping the middle finger. The site auto-logs you out very frequently. Maybe in five minutes of inactivity, including while you're drafting a message to someone. You could very well lose your message because you hit Send and the site has logged you out, forcing you to re log in (and not even send the message after you do, but rather, take you back to the home page).

And then, we have the users. For some reason, POF seems to attract the worst of the worst. The women are HYPER shallow and often stupid. They can't spell or use proper grammar in any way. The site also has no minimum character requirements, meaning you'll often come across empty or dead profiles. And while I obviously have no experience with the men on there, women have told me most of them have shirtless selfies, are flipping the camera the finger (just like a lot of girls on there), or will send them d! Ck pics. So it seems the men are just as awful as the shallow, stuck up, spoiled women.

POF also has a forum, but its a complete and utter joke. Its filled with some of the nastiest trolls on the internet. Men and women who seem to have become embittered by the site itself, yet still continue to use it. The most popular feature is the "Review my profile" section, but its really just an open forum to mock and ridicule others, and they almost NEVER have anything positive to say. I actually only discovered POF had a forum because they suggest you get profile feedback on it before you try to close your account. But as mentioned, its just full of bitter, cynical people who simply LOVE to mock others and sh-t talk. I found it very disturbing, even on the internet. A YouTube comments section actually seems nicer than the bitter and jaded forum users of POF.

With all of its problems, POF does have a lot of traffic and users, however. Though its a sh-t site, there IS a chance you may meet someone off of it, simply because of the number of users. So because of that, it can't be rated one star. However, it is almost the worst mainstream dating site out there. If there weren't so many others, it WOULD be the worst. Its no better than Craigslist in meeting people, and the users are almost as stuck up, shallow, and contemptible.

Check out POF if you're simply a "numbers" person, because it does have millions of users on there. However, don't get you hopes up for too many quality users. And also be aware that the site itself is glitched, problematic, ugly, and just plain terrible to use on an interface level.

OKCupid, as a site, its excellent. Its probably one of the best dating sites out there. However, as the case with any dating site, you'll often have shallow, superficial, stuck up people on it.

As a site, OKCupid is almost perfect. It has detailed profiles, a question matching algorithm, an early warning system to let you know if you'll be wasting your time by writing to users who never respond, and more. However, its not perfect. The matching algorithm is flawed. Once you answer a good 600 or more questions, it becomes nearly impossible to match anyone who's answered just as many. In other words, the more questions you answer, the less compatibility you'll have with others. Also, over time, OKCupid has gotten rid of some cool features, like the blog, the Private Notes section, and most recently, the tally of new messages or matches you have. They no longer tell you how many new messages are in your inbox or how may people have viewed your profile. Also, the browsing options are limited, even if you upgrade to paid-subscription A-List. You cannot search by response frequency, common interests, or sometimes height (which is limited to 5'0" to 6'4").

OKCupid is one of the best dating sites out there, but it could be better. They continually get rid of cool features over the years, and more can be added into the site to make it more popular other than searching among the same old lame profiles. It could be like Facebook, in many ways. The questions and quizzes are cool, for example. And you could visit the site for reasons other than writing to people (and getting snubbed by them).

Edit: The people who are on OKCupid are often the reason you won't have a good experience on the site, as is the case with MOST dating sites. Just like most others, the women will likely be extremely shallow, have an insanely high opinion of themselves (despite often not even being good looking, successful, young, or without kids). Typically, MOST straight women on that site - and most other dating sites - are looking for White men over six feet tall, under the age of 35, and making no less than $70,000 a year. So for all of us who aren't Bruce Waynes, you can forget about any luck finding a decent girl on there to write back to you. And the men on dating sites outnumber the women about 5:1 and many of them are perverts just looking to get laid (as most users of the site have told me, in their experience).

If you're female, don't have any kids, under 35, and not a shallow stuck-up diva, you'll have to search through a lot of crap to find the decent guy you're looking for. If you're male and under 6'1" (aka "short"), non-White or Hispanic, make less than 70K a year, over the age of 30, overweight, or simply just ugly, this site will not be kind to you and you will have to be EXTREMELY persistent (as in, writing to literally thousands of profiles) in order to find success.

If you're a "perfect" looking rich white male, your odds of a positive reply from a message will be about 1 in 25. If you're a male and slightly above average in height, looks, and income (6'0,8/10, $60K a year), your odds will be about 1 in 50. For anyone else who's "average" in ANYTHING numerical towards yourself, your odds are literally about 1 in 500. These were my odds as a 5'11", mid 20's black male who's maybe a 6.5 or 7 in looks. Spoke to three or four women there in my entire three year experience on OKCupid from 2012 to 2015, before the site shadowbanned me with the infamous "technical issues" line.

Oh yeah; OKCupid shadowbans you, by the way. If you have non-leftist views (the admins and mods are total progressive hipster SJW types from Manhattan and Brooklyn) or if a woman thinks you're ugly or something, they will ban you without notice, and in a cowardly way of lying about "technical issues" upon trying to log-in. They do this, and even block your IP address so you can't even make a new profile and try again. They'll mostly only do this to men as the site seems to cater mostly only to women, even though men are the majority of paying customers and they outnumber the women at least five times over. So I guess the women are treated like princesses on there even by the admins, as if their own egos and the men stroking them weren't enough.

On paper, OKCupid is nearly perfect as a dating site. However, it does have its flaws and like any other dating site, is often filled with very shallow people and is probably not going to be a very useful or efficient way to engage in a relationship.

Almost anytime I order anything off of Amazon, I get what I wanted and am satisfied. Amazon often has prices cheaper than half of what it would cost in the stores and shipping is usually fast. Every once in a while, you'll get a bad seller, but this is very rare. Maybe 1% of the time. I have to say, Amazon is one of my favorite sites ever and besides maybe clothes, there's almost nothing I wouldn't buy off of it. Amazon is the kind of company you'd be proud working for. Its the best!

Quora, by itself, can be a great website, though it is not to be taken seriously as a Q&A site to get real, legitimate answers to real, legitimate problems. It is like Facebook combined with WikiAnswers, and provides answers from real people to general questions users ask on the site. However, most answers will be more like advice, opinions and personal insight, than actual answers. Quora, in theory, is a really cool website for any intellectuals that love knowledge and hearing insight and experiences from other people. However... Quora is corrupted by a community of whiny, immature social justice warriors and adult children who strictly believe no one else is allowed to say anything they disagree with. The site is run by elitists and thin-skinned super-sensitive adult children and ANYthing you say that people in this inner circle may disagree with will be promptly and swiftly dealt with. To put it in other words, free speech isn't allowed on Quora. Only "consensus speech." You are not allowed to say anything that goes against the liberal, feminist, "men are scum", "all negativity and dissenting opinions should be outlawed" status quo of the ones in charge.

The problem is, Quora is run by a group of giant p-ssies and Social Justice Warriors who ban anything and everything they disagree with. Its is very much against free speech and you are not allowed to disagree with the status quo. It is very much like a hive mind. If you write something even marginally unpopular, your answer gets censored and voted out. And if you say something that anyone heavily disagrees with, you are flagged for "offending" someone. In other words, you're only allowed to express yourself if THEY approve of it. It is extremely against free speech and independent thought. It is filled with man-hating feminists and social justice warriors, essentially making it a slightly more intellectual Tumblr.

While MOST of the people on Quora are generally cool and down to Earth, it is the admins and power-users with thousands of followers who are condescending and very much anti-opinion. They will be quick to remind you that Quora isn't a democracy and that essentially, you're only allowed to say anything as long as others agree with it. As mentioned, marginal disagreements get your answers censored out ("collapsed"). And anything going against the hyper-liberal, social justice, whiny "my feelings matter more than your freedom" status quo will get you punished, blocked, or banned from the site. It is EXTREMELY restrictive against free speech. Keep in mind, this isn't Quora the site itself, but rather, the whiny, sensitive, selfish admins that control the site like a dictatorship. They are adult children who believe the world revolves around them and you are not allowed to express anything you feel that they disagree with. There are several restrictive rules set up on the site to prevent this. Humor is seen as "trolling," unpopular but detailed answers are seen as "unhelpful," and anything ANY one could disagree with is seen as "offensive" and a violation of their strict net-nanny rule "Be Nice, Be Respectful." Only anything that isn't in the consensus of the feminist, hyper-liberal social justice status quo is seen as "offensive" somehow.

Basically, the site in its barest form, is a mix of Facebook and Yahoo Answers. However, its run by complete p-ssies and social justice warriors who will censor, edit, block, or ban literally anything they disagree with. But sometimes, not before they try to "teach" you why you're wrong. Though its less common, sometimes, they are willing to try to "educate" you on your opinion or answer that they disagree with. But half the time, they'll just collapse, remove, or censor you.

As stated, the site itself is mostly full of decent people from all over the world. However, the childish, immature, whiny, hyper-sensitive, feminist, ultra-liberal, social justice warrior admins, as well as the popular power users and "future admins" restrict any and all free speech they disagree with. The site makes it feel like you can NEVER say anything they personally disagree with, because it will be "trolling," "offensive," or "unhelpful" in some way. Even the Quora founders left the site partially because of this.

Quora, in theory, is a cool site. However, its corrupted by crybabies, adult children, and social justice warriors who literally feel that feelings and hyper-sensitivity and agreeing with the status quo is more important than being able to express how you feel. The admins and powerful power-users ruin Quora and turn it into an elist liberal b-tchfest similar to Tumblr or Jezebel.

Quora would be cool if it wasn't administered by a bunch of immature, whiny, first world problem, hyper-liberal, hyper-sensitive adult crybabies. Avoid Quora. You may like it at first, until you realize you're not allowed to say anything anyone would disagree in any way. Avoid Quora if you like being able to express yourself. However, if you love putting down men, banning words like "bossy," and feel that feelings and sensitivity are more important than facts and honesty, then you'll feel right at home on Quora.