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[bamalucky]

He's been online reading this in the past little while.

[nonattender]

I haven't seen nonattender in such a good mood for some time 

Is it that obvious?

Well, it's only because I'm working on my own dopey scheme - except mine has a hypothetical "Mr. Good Guy". 

-t

[112233]

side question .. is it normal for bloggers to insert opinions into their readers comments? I haven't seen this before. Maybe some active bloggers can chime in. thanks.

(emphasis mine)

I don’t get it, what you want to do is against the terms of agreement and is illegal. [Editor’s note: this is false, see my full comment below…] Why are you making it seem like this is a loophole? If you want to be a criminal why don’t you just steal somebody SS# and use it to take a loan out. To make yourself feel better, “Mr Grey hat”, you can give half the money you stole to some charity.

http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/prosper-borrow-endorsement/#comment-92736

[Mtnchick]

side question .. is it normal for bloggers to insert opinions into their readers comments? I haven't seen this before. Maybe some active bloggers can chime in. thanks.

(emphasis mine)

I don’t get it, what you want to do is against the terms of agreement and is illegal. [Editor’s note: this is false, see my full comment below…] Why are you making it seem like this is a loophole? If you want to be a criminal why don’t you just steal somebody SS# and use it to take a loan out. To make yourself feel better, “Mr Grey hat”, you can give half the money you stole to some charity.

http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/prosper-borrow-endorsement/#comment-92736

Unscrupulous scamming bloggers would do that. So yes.

[biblio1]

http://sethgitter.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-if-we-could-buy-lazymans-prosper.html Check out his two suppositions!

[bamalucky]

Blogger has since edited some comments & added this to the top.

Note to Reader: I intended the following to be a piece of satire in the same idea of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Since I’ve written about 17 million words being a Prosper “fan boy”, I thought it would be fairly obvious that I wouldn’t hurt the marketplace by actually selling my endorsement. From the comments, it seems as if I was wrong. I wanted to make Prosper aware of the issue while trying to advance my writing skills.

I had another goal as well, I hoped people would pick up on the debate of social capital having monetary value vs. money being able to buy social capital. Seth Gitter, Assistant Professor of Economics, says the concept may make an excellent economics paper. You’ll want the read the last paragraph of that post where he mentioned that Michael Jordan’s paid endorsement for Nike is very similar. This is the kind of valuable discussion I wanted to explore. And now for the unedited article:

[bamalucky]

He deleted a comment of someone who asked him

"Why didn't you just use your inside connections at Prosper to make your thoughts known instead of posting this sleazy looking post"

[biblio1]

He also didn't appreciate Jonathon Swift quotes.

[112233]

man, he really is connected with prosper.

[Mtnchick]

He deleted a comment of someone who asked him

"Why didn't you just use your inside connections at Prosper to make your thoughts known instead of posting this sleazy looking post"

He never answered that here either (back before P-----r told him to shut up).

[Nora_Lenderbee]

Moral: It is hard to be Jonathan Swift. Even Swift had a hard time. His "Modest Proposal" was not exactly well-received.

[Tokyo Joe]

I knew Jonathan Swift...  I read Jonathan Swift, I taught Jonathan Swift...  lazyman, you are no Jonathan Swift.

[chameleon734]

The great thing about the internet is that you don't need someone to proof-read what you write, although this is highly suggested if you plan on getting paid money for it. Although this is great if you are a contributor to a blog and you get paid by a real person and/or Google adsense, this also proves how stupid one can be by not editing the article.

In this case, Lazyman thought that everyone would get the "hint, hint, nudge, nudge" satire of the article in question. Unfortunately for all of us who write posts online either for fun or for a paycheck, the laws of your state and US Federal laws and the lawyers who wrote them don't get satire, which explains why they are lawyers and not actors/writers/directors/executive producers.

[bamalucky]

There was no hint,hint satire.

This guy was fully willing to sell his endorsements.

[bamalucky]

He hasn't had another guest blog on the Prosper blog since this.

Maybe Rateladder will throw him a bone 

LAZY has since deleted any comment from me from this original post.There were 38 replies & all of mine & several others are gone.23 replies now.

He's also altered the blog at the beginning to make himself look better.This is 2x altered.