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I don't think it either encourages or rewards it, but it does nothing to discourage or punish it.
MySpace encourages bad web design by having a bland and unappealing default style and providing customization features that are very easy to abuse, such as tiled background images (which are almost never a good idea) and the ability to embed media that automatically begins assaulting your visitors as soon as they load the page.
The rewards come from the community itself, which is made up primarily of casual computer users for whom "creative design" means "brighter colors and louder music than the other guy". The flashier and noisier your MySpace page is, the more "creative" you are.
Elegant, user-friendly design choices go unrewarded because they stay out of the user's way instead of assaulting them and screaming "LOOK AT ME, I'M A WEB PAGE!"
Nothing MySpace encourages is really productive. My kids are on MySpace, so I have an account to keep track of their doings and such. That site is just such a mess! The blog makes me want to vomit. I hope my kids out grow MySpace!
May I suggest the tags "oh god my eyes" and "the goggles they do nothing", Ryan?
P.S. Your argument convinced me, Ryan.
Myspace is cackpants.
http://virb.com, however, is how it should be done - beautiful!
I didn't need convincing, the place is a virus ridden sinkhole - every time I log in I feel unclean - so it's rare that I do..