Comment Spammed
Today I was the victim of comment spam. Someone started posting stuff about poker all over the blog. It was obviously a bot, however, because it was using the old MovableType engine to do it. In other words, it was posting comments that weren’t going to show up anywhere, if it weren’t for one of MT’s “features.” You see, the main difference between MovableType and other blogging engines such as WordPress (the one I use) is that MT has to rebuild the entire website (sometimes more than a thousand pages, on large sites) every time a template is updated, and it has to rebuild the HTML for an entry page each time someone comments on it. Because pages are built when updates are made rather than on-the-fly when they are visited, a single comment, or in this case, hundreds of spammy ones, can cause a complete rebuild, overwriting the WordPress PHP files and other parts of the site. Not good. Since I can’t locate the source for my old design and I was wanting to make a new one anyway, expect to see a pretty new layout sometime in January. For now, I’ll be using the default WordPress theme, which isn’t anything special, but works fine nonetheless.