I get visits from hundreds of newbie-type xangans everyday.  For the longest time now I've wondered: "What gives?  How did they happen to stumble upon me?  Who's sending them here?"  It's not like I'm usually on the Featured Content list.

Most of these stumblers (which I've, in the past, called drive-by bloggers) never leave a mark.  They look...and go away. (Don't ask me how I know, I just know.)

But occasionally they come out of the blue and crash-land with a comment, such as:

o damn click cancel and end up here O_o thats fucked up
Posted 9/26/2004 at 6:35 PM by shecamethroughthebathroomwindo 

or..

hmm ok, first of all i was defending her in a stupid situation like this and my comment was merely a joke, adding jocosity to this nonsense fight which might i add you brought up for no reason, so before you have the nerve to call me "immature" i would think again of you im'ing her calling her stupid lame cut downs to try to make yourself feel superior and arrogent to the situation muchless signing off before she could say anything to shun what she had to say, so if you would like to humor me again with your juvenile remarks be my guest, because you are the laughingstock

ps. im not her sister
Posted 9/26/2004 at 1:34 AM by plastic_love    and...

whoa wrong xanga

ignore that
Posted 9/26/2004 at 1:42 AM by plastic_love 

Well plastic love must have come through the bathroom window when I wasn't looking because, when I encountered these comments, I had NO IDEA who they were or what they were ranting about.

But then a *light* lit up in my battle-scarred head. And following platic's link above back to her Saturday post , I found someone apparently flaming her in her comment box by the name of  JadedxSeptember .  Now if you click on JadedxSep, you'll go to her site and be presented with a pop-up alert (you've all seen them-this ones says:"x Enter All Monsters, Let Us Twist Another Faery Tale x") and it gives you the option to click "OK" or "Cancel".  If you click "OK" you proceed on into the blog, and if you click "Cancel" you're supposed to be returned to your originating page.  But if the alert code is badly written and has no coding for a return (as is JadedxSep's and many, many others'), you'll be redirected on xanga to http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=undefined .  And from user=undefined, you'll automatically end up here (you can click to simulate)!  heh 

So I've been getting hundreds of hits daily from all over xanga by merit of unknown xangans clicking "Cancel" on malformed alert pop-up boxes.

Mystery solved!