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City-Data is a large website with a variety of sections. Much is devoted to information on businesses and locations. It also contains a forum.

I joined the forum in early 2007; over the years, I had no real problems with anyone, nor did anyone express a problem with me. This changed late last autumn. For weeks I was harassed, followed around the forum, and received direct messages from a new member. When I reached my breaking point with the member's behavior, I attempted to gain assistance from moderators by posting a comment and then contacting mods directly. Two mods said they'd assist- but without giving me any reason they said I wouldn't be able to return as a participating member. When one of the senior moderators insulted me, I was permanently banned because I did exactly what the forum says to do in such circumstances: I contacted the admin/owner for help. Without being notified, I tried to log in and received the message 'you have been banned- no reason specified- date this ban will be lifted: never.'

Dishonest: the forum states moderators will help if a member has a problem with another member; it also states a member should contact admin if there's a problem with a senior mod. The reason this is dishonest: one mod said both senior mods and admin are all co-owners of the site- so a member is essentially 'frying their own goose' if they approach the owner.

The owner never bothered to reply to my requests for assistance- nor did he reply when I informed him CD mods were following former members onto the Topix site and harassing us there, too.

In other words, the owner does not care about CD members, nor how we are treated. They do not abide by their own TOS.

I, personally, was kicked out after being a solid member for more than 8 years- I cannot even access the site, assuming they somehow blocked my ISP, as nothing comes up but this message:

City-Data Forum Message

You have been banned for the following reason:

trolling

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

You can check Topix and see how many people have had the same/similar experiences- as well as individuals claiming to represent CD harassing us there. And the reason most of us were banned: asking moderators for assistance.

Reason of review: Bad quality.

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Kellan Sua

City Data Forum is an archaic, over moderated, biased discussion page that have moderators who only allow comments supporting their own particular areas. That is one reason slots alloted to entire states have as few as three new posts per week.

One of the worst is some individual who calls herself Mensaguy. She has literally ruined the West Virginia page, which now next to no traffic.

It is essentially a waste of time. One finds far more open possibilities on social media pages.

Guest

Ibginnie has to be the most biased moderator there. If one questions them boom comes the ban hammer.

Brien Dak

Same happened to me. I rated some posts with thumbs up and posted a topic about the city I live in. Horrible site.

Guest

I can say that all the complaints about city-data forum are true and correct.One of the moderators has a sig that says โ€œIf you are harrassed donโ€™t reply - hit reportโ€œ doing this will result in you getting an infraction and the harrassor getting off scot free.The good people that used to be there are long gone, having left in frustration with the trolls who have carte blanch to be rude 24/7The worst mods are Yac, JMT and mensaguy.

Guest

The people who run this site are absolutely crazy. It's a bit like the Godlike productions forum in terms of aggressive banning and I.P blocking, but CItydata is way more self righteous.

I used to post around the Canada forum (am Canadian) and after replying to a few posts of controversial nature and raising debate on certain things I was instantly banned. I.P blocked as well and oddly enough even the ''Proxy server'' I used was also blocked.. very strange.

Other people who use the same proxy must have ALSO had a bad experience on the site. Many members on Citydata also are very abusive.

Guest

City Data is run by a bunch of Liberals who permit rampant hate towards The President and any type of name calling of his voters they see. Every single thread turns into Trump bashing no matter what it's about.BUT if you even ONCE reply with a FACT, you get "infractions" then banned.Such a JOKE.

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reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1448181

No, it is run by a bunch of Trump followers and if you intelligently debate anything against Trump you will get banned. Nice of you to spread lies.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1461699

I got kick off because I had the audacity to criticize the Fuhrer.

Guest

I got banned with "no reason specified" after I posted a second comment under the same topic. I think it is because I editted the comment and pressed the "submit" button too many times, because I was still learning how to post. Oh well.

Lylia Ngk

I had the same problem on City Data. When I complained to a moderator about a bullying post, the moderator then went onto the thread and deleted all of my posts instead, giving the reason they were "irrelevant".

This moderator, who goes by the name "PJ Singer" then, over the next several weeks, stalked me on City Data, found all my posts on various threads and deleted them. She would state that my post was "orphaned", whatever that means. I began to realize she was digging up my posts all day long, which creeped me out. She then decided a post I made about a fast food restaurant was "trolling" and kicked me off.

I got the same message you did. My ISP was blocked. It doesn't bother me at all, as I can post from other computers. But the moderator's behavior is disturbing.

From what I can tell, they don't like posters who make reports about being harassed by other posters. So they will "punish" the person who reports.

The cyber bullying on that site is rampant. I also believe the moderators post under different screen names.

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reply icon Replying to comment of Lylia Ngk

I got banned for 30 days twice by these utra-liberal moderators. When I had a friend sign me up a new account, they later discovered that my IP address was again using under a different user name and they banned me again for "circumventing" their suspension.

I finally got permanently banned, but if I need to I have a new account with a proxy server so it masks my true IP address.

Censorship is disgusting.

Join another site. Do not support this alt-left site City-Data that is run by butt-hurt Hillary supporters.

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