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Thread #103603   Message #2117152
Posted By: JohnInKansas
02-Aug-07 - 03:09 AM
Thread Name: What's up with myspace - really slowwww
Subject: RE: What's up with myspace - really slowwww
A FAQ at MySpace comments vaguely that "visitors" can post html to your page. The "vaguely" part of it is that there's no explanation of who/what/how/when/why this might happen, but the non-answer was in reply to a query about "why is my page messed up."

The constructive/destructive/ambiguous suggestion was "you have to edit your html." Not much help if you can't load your page, but that's all there was to that item.

If someone could/has/might/did clip a couple of (or dozen) audio/video/nausiatinglycutegreetingimage links into your page preceding anything that actually appears, MySpace seems to try to load and play everything in fairly strict script order. (With my sloooooow connection, I get lots of time to sort of observe how it doesn't work. I find lots of profiles that I abandon after 5 minutes if nothing shows by then, especially if I see lots of "links to" the common music/video/cute-art stores flashing by on the bottom bar.)

With the recent density of 11-15 year old kids pretending to be 68 year old prostitutes and playing games with each other - as seen in the "General Profile" sections, the possibility of "innocently intentioned" vandalism probably is not remote. You may just have been gifted with a visit by a bunch of screaming wet-nosed undisciplined urchins using your space for a playground, or by someone who was well-intention but slightly "html challenged."

Or not. (????)

John