Care2Reviews of care2.com

I was a Major contributor of articles and petiitons on articles of interest on environmental, animals, and world causes such as human rights, Mideast politics etc. terminated without comment and despite having over 1000 friends and having submitted over 22,000 articles over many years there has been no explanation for my suspension ten days ago despite numerous requests for this. My conclusion now is that I would advise real activists to steer away from this poorly run site operated from all appearances without ethics apparently and favoring a cadre of extremists.

Be careful about joining that site. While officially its purpose is to create “Largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal wel”, the reality is not so clear. First, you must provide a complete and accurate personal information. Which, some members allege, is then sold to third parties and they will contact you for their fundraising. Second, the site serves as a propaganda tool for extremist Vegan, Leftist and Islamist views. Several aggressive members, with links to the site administration, regularly stir anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments and promote “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” anti-Israel campaign, still managed by the Arab Boycott Office. The Care2 administration was repeatedly notified of such campaigns, clearly violating written Care2 Code of Conduct, yet nothing was done to stop these trolling violators. Actually, accounts of people who protest the trolls are terminated instead. Third, the moderators lack both the customer service and basic ethics skills. They never warn members about pending account termination and do not provide explanations for such termination. For those who had been a member of this network for years, established connections with friends, loaded tons of personal photos and had a great deal of correspondence stored at Care2 mailboxes, a sudden loss of all that comes as a great shock and major inconvenience. It is unclear what the purpose of this site is and who pays them for hundreds of petitions they encourage members to initiate. Their claims of having tens of millions members is a lie to scam advertisers, because the number of accounts never goes down, not when people pass away or have their accounts terminated. Joining and running activities on Care2 may result in bitter feelings later when your membership is suddenly terminated without any explanation and all emails, connections that you established over the years and personal photos are lost.

Care2 SELLS your personal Information to companies for money.... Well they call it a "Fee" Of course they claim that they tell everyone on their Privacy and term pages. But word count makes this equal in length to having to read two chapters long of a novel. It's a scam, they are in the petition business for one thing MONEY they even the COO Linkedin page egotistically boasts "Care2 is rapidly growing and profitable, with over $10 million in revenue" Try starting one of their Petitions, if you reach your goal do you know what happens? NOTHING Care2 does nothing except let you print the page out that shows you have some names on it. No company actually takes them seriously because a piece of paper printed out and sent in by Joe is worthless. Care2 does not care2 even have the decency to send it from their address, They are happy because they received thousands of page views off the work of that poor slob who had the compassion to believe in something. I am sure Care2 is having a big laugh at the scam they are running.

Anyone who signs gets bombarded with email about other unrelated petitions and so either ignores them, unsubscribes to all mailings from care2 or creates a filter to junk them. In my case, when the petition closed and was delivered, I wanted to be able to keep people informed about the reply to the petition and further progress. I couldn't because once the petition is closed you can't email any updates any more. care2's customer service were very good about this, specially re-opening my ability to post updates for a short period, but it was too late because everyone had unsubscribed from receiving emails from care2. Now that I need to take followup action on the issue, there is no way to contact the support base of 1000+ people who felt strongly about the issue, so I would have to re-do all the social marketing I did the first time, but without support as the first time as I don't expect as many people to run a second article on essentially the same topic. Of course, I may be wrong, but care2's promiscuous email mechanism is counterproductive to the effectiveness of the petitions themselves.

Care2.com gives or sells your information, even if you only sign a petition. You will also be bombarded by emails for other petitions, not necessarily associated with the one you signed. My advice is to stay away or suffer the consequences.

It is over run by a group of "trolls" and corrupt moderators. Any discussion that pertains to being vegan/not eating meat is completely taken over by the same group of nasty, rude, disturbed individuals. Several good, decent people have been chased away by the same group of people and the so called "moderators" do NOTHING about it. Many good people have been banned from the site because the group of intolerant "trolls" repeatedly flag and report anyone who speaks of being vegan or not eating meat. The moderators are pathetic and will silence good people who actually CARE about the topics while allowing disgusting, foul mouthed 'trolls' gang up and bully anyone with opposing views. Care2 is going to be exposed far and wide for being the disgraceful, hypocritical and CORRUPT organization it has become. Randy Paynter should be ashamed of what his employees have done to his dream.