Oh this drives me CRAZY! Someone’s left a comment for me on my MySpace profile, a comment that’s some terrible spam that I really hate, but I can’t seem to delete it. Every time I click on the “Delete This Comment” link, the page refreshes, but the comment’s still there! AUGH! How do I delete this $#@$#@ thing?
Welcome to the world of MySpace spammers. As MySpace has become a busier and busier online community, more people who you can either call “budding online entrepreneurs” if you’re charitable, or filthy spammers if you’re not (I’m guessing you’d choose the latter, somehow), are finding that they can dump comments that include links back to their profile or even their non-MySpace site with wild abandon. Better yet, fiddle with some fancy JavaScript and they can actually disable — or even hide — the delete comment link when you try to remove the offensive material.
This is a terrible situation, needless to say, and not something I like to see appear on the already chaotic wilds of MySpace. Fortunately, there’s a way to delete any comment, regardless of how sneaky they’ve been with their coding snippets, and that’s through something called safe mode.
Start out by logging in to your MySpace account and clicking on Edit Profile. On the top right you’ll see the following choices:
Click on Safe Edit Mode and don’t be too freaked out when you’re dropped into a “groups” editor:
You can see that there are three tabs along the top of this box. Click on Comments and you’re now in safe mode, a mode where you can see the HTML that the commenters have included, rather than have your browser interpret it and mess things up:
Ahhh… that should make you feel better. Now you can see what tricks people are doing, where they’re linking, and generally know what’s going on. Better yet, there’s no way for them to mask the “Delete” link, so you can also delete with impunity, cleaning up your comments to reflect those from your friends and nothing else.
I really like this view because it’s easier to understand who has left comments and what they say, without being distracted by all the crazy (and fun!) graphics and animations. I find that it’s the best way to find duplicate comments from people too, which I don’t like either. If they were different comments, that’d be great (Hi Tara!) but when it’s the same comment dropped in by some program, well, that’s pretty spammy in my book.
Anyway, I hope this helps you get a handle on the comment problem you have on MySpace. And don’t forget to check out my own MySpace profile and explore the wealth of MySpace help offered here on this site too.
My thanks to Jay at Hook Up Your Myspace.com for reminding me of this great tip!.
I know that u already shown how to delete an undeletable myspace comment but this one i have on my myspace can’t be deleted by the way u described. i went to safe mode but the comment is not there. Please helP!.. its very annoying and its always at the top of my comments.
damn, thank you so much. i can’t believe i didn’t figure that out on my own. i feel like a doofus.
i tried your above directions, but when i go to my comments in safe mode, the offending comment doesn’t show up at all. it’s just not there. my comments seem to start with the one underneath it. wtf? i have to get this stupid macy’s gift card bs off my comments!
I have an issue with comments
I comment friends and it will corrupt their site. not cool
I have been attempting to isolate the problem and using snipets of the html code and it works fine, but when i copy and paste the full code it does not put the last line or lines in (which is the Add me as a friend link) and puts the previous commenter next to my comment and ruins my friends page.
got any ideas on this?
They removed the “Safe Edit Mode” feature! Probably because you told everyone how they can use it to get rid of these things. This is SO wrong.
So, thank you for the temporary fix, but now that they’ve removed this, is there any other way to do this?
Thanks for all you do.
my friends profile is messed up she has lost her comments page on her profile but she stills recieves the messages that i send, now all she has is her friends profiles but not the commenting area. thx
I know everyone’s already said it, but I have to say THANK YOU! I have a myspace for my small tshirt business and all my comments were hidden and I couldn’t delete all the spam ones I got. THANK YOU AGAIN!
Thank you so much! You are a life saver!
OMG! Neverminddd that worked! i just didnt give it enough time or something THANK YOU SOO MUCH! that was ridiculously annoying with the spam.. ugh!
thanks again!
i did what you told me but when i went into edit safe mode and clicked “comments” it came up with my friends pictures and then white blank comment boxes with no HTML’s and i clicked delete for the ones i wanted to delete but.. when i went back to my page their comments were still there
omg! i love u! whoever ur.. there was this comment that wont get deleted and it got my nerves sooo bad! thanks!
Great tip!!
THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
O my gosh thank you sooo sooo much=]]]
I totally hate spammers!!!!!!!! ugh!
Thanks again!
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