This Space Is MySpace, This Space Isn't YourSpace, I've Got a Shotgun, You Haven't Got One

[mrdankelly]

Doesn't blocking HTML on MySpace kind of defeat its purpose as a networking and advertising tool? I understand putting restrictions on what people can show on your blog-it's a more personal form of communication. But the comments section of MySpace seems to be there mostly so people can say, "Hey! Thanks for the add! This is what I'm up to." Within

Comments

[hot_eyeball]

I suspect this is an option people can turn on? (I avoid MySpace like I owe it money.) If so, it's a necessary one, as MySpace has been plagued by redirect/spyware/malware URL postings. The rare times my girlfriend used to access her page and her friends' pages on my machine while she didn't have one, I always ended up with crap all over after.

[mrdankelly]

Aha, good point. I'm enjoying the slow acquisition of "friends" as a means of advertising my own stuff, but I'm still waiting to see if there's a pay-off in the future. A friend says that it's helped him promote his work, but I haven't had any nibbles yet. Maybe it's not worth it at all. You've given me another thing to think about.

[alfaguru]

They're panicking. They built it without any sort of content filter, which allowed sad teens to make really fugly customized pages but also permitted the malicious few to insert all sorts of evil javascript nasties, which have spread across the site like crazy and caused all sorts of havoc.

They are trying to shut the lid now with various sudden changes of the rules, but they're making as much of a pig's ear of that as they did in the first place. They need to hire some decent developers.

[gilmoure]

I've seen some pages that are so bad (some kind of flame background), it was easier to open the html source of the page and read the blog posts from there. Sigh.