Are UFO's real? Or just the imaginations of conspiracy-minded whackos?
Prosper has deleted two of my forum threads this past week; posts that had passed moderation, with no rational explanation given by the authorities.
I post on the .Com forums because I am trying to find a borrower who can get 5 bidding endorsements from work, family, friends, etc. and I need to be able to engage borrowers so that they are away that there is a $1200 bid from me and $1800 more from lenders who have indicated interest.
(1) To this end, I posted the provocative "Your friends aren't bidding on your listing, so why should I?" message on the .Com Borrowers Forum and found a few borrowers who agreed with me and others who expressed that no one they knew had $50, that they'd be embarrassed for family to know that they used credit cards, and we were having a nice, civilized discussion.
Then, a few days ago, the thread completely vanished. There were about a dozen posts on it, but now it is gone--I am an eyewitness to this Unexplained Forum Obliteration (UFO).
(2) On the lender forum, I posted a message explaining how Prosper had improved its Default statistics by reclassifying the defaulted "legal test case" loans as "Repurchased".
Not surprisingly, this expository posting did not pass moderation.
So a few days later on the Lender Forum, I posted an innocuous message, saying that I follow AA loans on Prosper and that the Performance utility had been reporting 13 AA Defaults earlier in the week, but now shows only 11, and if anyone else had noticed that and knew why it was?
This time the moderator approved the post.
But today, the posting (and any replies?) is gone.
My guess is that the moderator didn't know the answer but the deleter of the posting did. Are there two moderators, a master and an apprentice?