I had such high hopes for the new Prosper forums, which is why it makes me a little sad to find myself agreeing with the general sentiment (but not the harsh rhetoric) of both Prosperous Land (Prosper’s New Forums Not So Hot) and zcommodore (new forums basically worthless). (Edit: ProsperousLand took a thoughtful and well written approach in his second criticism. I recommend this one if you want to read just 1: My Take On Prosper’s New Forums )
As both these links provide the gory details of the criticism I will take this post as a means of telling you which forum you should be using to discuss p2p lending including Prosper.
If you want to discuss Prosper or P2P Lending I would not currently do so at the Prosper Forum. P2P No Bank has an independent forum for all p2p lending sites including Prosper. The forum is monitored by representatives of both Lending Club and GlobeFunder and they are both very responsive. The software being used is a proven opensource forum platform called SMF (simple machine forums). It is fast, I could go on and on.
Fell free to decide for yourself, other than the Prosper Developer forum, I will be at the P2P No Bank Forum.
Another forum you may consider looking into is the Pro$pers.org forum… it can be a bit of a challenge to keep a well reasoned discussion on topic, but there are quite a few of the old forumers here.
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It’s hard to write about a negative blog post without coming across as rabidly harsh. And zcommodore and I are pussycats compared to the agitators over on the renameable forums. In the end, though, a (now deleted) forum poll had folks running about 95% against the change vs 5% for. Since you can count on 10% to vote on almost anything, I find it the opposition to the change truly remarkable.
Mike –
No doubt. Want to know why this post was so short? My mother alwasy said if you dont have something nice to say dont say anything.
Hence I changed the subject to alert readers to a better forum option.
The forum situation is kinda tragic right now.
The old forums were a mess with trolls posting junk all over the place and Prosper not doing much to stop it. I wondered on a number of occasions what could be done to remedy that. A few people had gotten banned and I was thinking we might be turning a corner. When the new forums were announced I was pretty excited. In reaction to that situation, it seems that Prosper has locked the new forums down rather tight, to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen.
The sad thing is that I can see the rationale and I can ‘t really give a better alternative, I’m just not wild about aspects of the solution.
For now I’m hoping that things will ease up over time.
The Forum was redesigned so that, no one could complain about rising defaults. Posts and topics are evaluated, and if they don’t like them they delete them and never post them.
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