zcommodore

Would someone at Prosper please explain what it is that they have against Prospers.org?  I realize there are a few members there who are pretty down on Prosper but I also happen to know quite a few people at Prosper have accounts there as well.

A couple of months ago, Prosper deleted a bunch of lender's profiles that included references to Prospers.org and later claimed Prospers.org is dangerous because they collect e-mail addresses and screennames of members of Prosper.com. This is just a silly excuse in my opinion.

For all of you who are attending Prosper Days 2008, I hope you will get some answers regarding Prosper's attitude towards Prospers.org.  As Fred93 so eloquently stated in a comment on Bamalucky's blog, it's "One of the great mysteries of the universe."

It seems to me, the more they fight the knowlege of Prospers.org getting out, the more the knowlege of it will spread--just like the Streisand effect mentioned numerous times in relation to this.  On the one hand, I could sort-of understand them getting rid of references to prospers.org from their website but it is still there in numerous places.  If they removed it universally, it would make more sense but they haven't and it's not going away--so why fight it?