Having been wholly inactive on Prosper.com (except for withdrawing money on a regular basis) since they destroyed the original forums and instituted what tries to pass as new forums, and their blog, I received this email, time-stamped as having been created at 5:07 am this morning:
Subject: Your account has been suspended [ ref:xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx:ref ]
Dear [Epictetus],
For future reference, your Prosper support case number is xxxxxxxx.
Sincerely,
Prosper Customer Support
Help pages on this and other topics can be found at:
http://www.prosper.com/help/
This email was sent to [Epictetus] registered as Epictetus on Prosper. We will never send you an email which does not contain the full name and screen name that you registered with.
To which I replied:
From Epictetus to Prosper Customer Support:
On what basis?
I have not been active - in any way - on Prosper.com. in anywhere
from a few months to a number of months.
My Profile has not changed in nearly two years.
I have neither posted nor attempted to post anything on a current
Prosper.com forum, with the exception of three attempted (and
rejected) neutral posts in the very beginning, and have never
attempted at all to post anything on its blog.
I await your explanation.
cc: Andrew Martinez-Fonts
There clearly
is a Hit List at Prosper.com, and it is almost certainly based on membership in and posting here on Prospers.org.
Prosper management, astonishingly, appears ever and endlessly able to make itself even smaller, meaner, more petty, and
desperate than ever it was before, achieving new Personal Worst after new Personal Worst.
How inept and terribly, terribly wasteful they were of my and every other early adopters' tremendous enthusiasm, support and goodwill toward them.
Despite Chris Larsen's repeated claims that Prosper is almost wholly a Web 2 company, Prosper, in reality, is to Web 2 as anti-matter is to matter.
Web 2, my ass. Prosper is as avaricious and ruthless as any 19th-century company-store business ever was.