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Someone posted the forum question "does unemployment show up on a background check?"

I posted the following link to the Maryland Unemployment Website page.
https://www.dllr.state.md.us/AppealsOnlineSearch/web/content/Home.aspx
This link shows that if a background searcher can access someone's unemployment records and all they need is the person's social security number.

The next day I was informed that I was banned from freeadvice.com for "unspecified reasons" and the date the ban will be lifted is "never".

Absolutely terrible website. They twist and turn little things you wright (that have nothing to do with your question) and try to make you sound like a fool.
Not one "senior" member is nice or gives advice.
Here are the worst and I mean worst advice givers on this site
Ohiogal-the worst and probably a lonely person. Lives at home with 3 cats and overweight
Proserpina
Ohroadwarrior
Flyingron
Sliverplum

These users like to follow each other around and like each other's posts. They hang as a team and 90% of the time make fun of the new user.

I posted a question on the website seeking some advise and what I got was far from that. The response I got for my question was far from insight full and rude. What I have read in some of the other reviews about the members being insensitive and giving little to no legal insight is true. Nothing but a bunch of cyber bullies that will go to any length to make you feel sorry you even tried to get help from the site. The person who said you were better off going to google first is correct, and I was actually advised by some of the senior members that I could've found my answer by just using my favorite search engine to research it. So, why have a place that offers free advise, but their senior members will jump at the chance to tell you that you didn't need them in the first place. It is a waste of time.

Posting advise-
Posters should proceed with caution and research the advise on the site before posting.

Look at the senior members posting history. The advise on this site is free but is not always from a professional person. It is hard to tell who you are taking advise from.

The advise from the senior members is not delivered with any degree of sensitivity, empathy or compassion. You will rarely find an advocate here although sometimes the information will be useful and insightful.

In some cases you will find the advise un-constructive - i. E unnecessarily negative in nature. Some senior members will quickly digress into a personal attack on the original poster.

Not a source for sound, rational, polite advise.

I am never going to this website again and will be advising everyone I know to seek legal advice elsewhere. In response to legal questions, I witnessed other site members making repeated derogatory comments and remarks that could arguably be named as outright libelous. Members would not take the time to thoroughly read and understand what was being asked and/or said before offering their assumptions. Member responses are on par with what you would read if you posted your question on Yahoo Answers, Twitter or as your Facebook status... what good is a so-called legal forum rife with critics on the kind of person you are in real-life? The only action I saw being taken by the site moderator(s) was to lock the thread when they felt the answers were sufficiently good (even when the advice-seekers would say they had still not gotten a clear and non-judgemental answer). Yet they freely allow other site members (especially those with the most posts) to type whatever they feel ( non-legal chitchat, vulgar terms, name-calling). I am personally appalled that the site is run that way. If I were looking for legal advice off-line and received that kind of treatment, I would promptly be looking elsewhere! It is a wonder to me why the volunteers want to and are allowed to use that site to verbally berate others instead of helping with legal matters. Unless you like being cyberbullied, please spare yourself the visit. I hope that the offending members of that site are banned for their behavior.