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I regularly transfer funds in to Prosper and bid on listings

13 (9.7%)

I sometimes transfer funds into Prosper to bid on specific listings

6 (4.5%)

I reinvest repayments in new listings but don't transfer any new funds into Prosper

15 (11.2%)

I mostly withdraw funds from Prosper but bid on occasional listings

18 (13.4%)

I am withdrawing all funds from Prosper

82 (61.2%)

Total Members Voted: 130

[Nontyper]

One of the very few (6 at this time) still putting money in.

[cubbiesnextyr]

I voted, but since Prosper had made my choice for me, I only had one choice I could pick.  I don't know if you should discount my vote or not.  If I wasn't banned, I'd probably have chosen "I mostly withdraw funds from Prosper but bid on occasional listings"

So what were you officially banned for again?  Did you ever get an answer?

I got the boilerplate "repeated violations of member page" or whatever. 

Basically, they didn't like what I had written on my group's page, so they poofed what I wrote and suspended me.  Then they purged everyone else's profile pages that had prospers.org written in there.  They appear to have missed pro$pers.org, and when they then searched for that they banned epic, since they must have thought he added it after the great .org purge. 

At least that's my theory.  No fear, I still have my wife's account if I ever wanted to lend again, though the chances of Prosper surviving that long are quite remote.

[Penelope]

It was fun while it lasted.  In my mind, it's a race to see if I can get my money back out before the ship sinks.

[Mtnchick]

One of the very few (6 at this time) still putting money in.

"Avg loan age 83 days"

That's why

[112233]

baby/bathwater ..

[Pioneer]

So far, only 4 out of 52 are transferring funds in?  Wow.  Perhaps the demographics here are slanted, but that's pretty amazing...

I'm still on the slow train out of Prosperville.  Today, I asked myself: can you at least try to get pumped up about it again?  Maybe let some funds accumulate, and bid?

Then I thought of much I used to like this place when we were all one big happy lending family, back in the far-off days of 2006.  And how different it is now.  And I recalled how I used to feel about the company back then, when it excited me, when I wanted it to grow, to be a part of whatever happened...  And then I think of how that company makes me feel now; shunned, chiseled, belittled...

Screw it.  I'm so turned-off by Prosper now, I think I need to start weaning myself from .org too, little by little.  It's over, at least for me.  I feel a little sad about that, but I'll manage just fine...

I couldn't have said it better.  I was reinvesting funds but am now withdrawing all funds.  I can't imagine being interested for three more years.

[Ferrix]

Screw it.  I'm so turned-off by Prosper now, I think I need to start weaning myself from .org too, little by little.  It's over, at least for me.  I feel a little sad about that, but I'll manage just fine...

Frowny face.  I am much more interested in THIS community than Prosper any more.  But I still really want PMI to improve and for some more positive lenders to arrive.  Or maybe we'll all descend on Lendingclub or something.  Won't they love that.

Oh well, if everyone eventually goes away then this site will become a (de facto) archive I guess, a ghost town.  Nothing lasts forever I suppose.  Dammit now I'm depressed.

[cubbiesnextyr]

Screw it.  I'm so turned-off by Prosper now, I think I need to start weaning myself from .org too, little by little.  It's over, at least for me.  I feel a little sad about that, but I'll manage just fine...

Frowny face.  I am much more interested in THIS community than Prosper any more.  But I still really want PMI to improve and for some more positive lenders to arrive.  Or maybe we'll all descend on Lendingclub or something.  Won't they love that.

Oh well, if everyone eventually goes away then this site will become a (de facto) archive I guess, a ghost town.  Nothing lasts forever I suppose.  Dammit now I'm depressed.

Prosper Monkey will still be around...

[HollowOak]

Hands up if you know what Steve Kinzler's Internet Oracle was.

[112233]

Screw it.  I'm so turned-off by Prosper now, I think I need to start weaning myself from .org too, little by little.  It's over, at least for me.  I feel a little sad about that, but I'll manage just fine...

Frowny face.  I am much more interested in THIS community than Prosper any more.  But I still really want PMI to improve and for some more positive lenders to arrive.  Or maybe we'll all descend on Lendingclub or something.  Won't they love that.

Oh well, if everyone eventually goes away then this site will become a (de facto) archive I guess, a ghost town.  Nothing lasts forever I suppose.  Dammit now I'm depressed.

maybe at some point maybe you can promote zopa/lending club to be even keel with prosper. "About Zopa", "About Lending Club" etc...

[zcommodore]

Hands up if you know what Steve Kinzler's Internet Oracle was.

* zcommodore quietly raises his hand.

[Erasmus_Darwin]

Hands up if you know what Steve Kinzler's Internet Oracle was.

Back in my day, it was the Usenet Oracle.


Accidentally modified by HollowOak. The Modify and Quote buttons are very close to one another. My apologies.

[NewHorizon]

Hands up if you know what Steve Kinzler's Internet Oracle was.

* zcommodore quietly raises his hand.

* NewHorizon , emboldened by zcomm's bravery, quietly raises hand.

[HollowOak]

Hands up if you know what Steve Kinzler's Internet Oracle was.

Back in my day, it was the Usenet Oracle.

I stand corrected, it was indeed the Usenet Oracle.

[caliostro]

Accidentally modified by HollowOak. The Modify and Quote buttons are very close to one another. My apologies.

That impulse to moderate is proving hard to resist, eh?