Best Weblogs for Personal Websites?

herrvinny asks: "What is the best weblog script to use on a personal web site? SourceForge and Google show plenty of weblogging systems available, but I just need a simple, powerful solution. Movable Type has been recommended to me, but I've heard of problems with spam, exploits, and comment flooding. I'd like to have a decently good comments section, where visitors can reply to my ramblings and have a fairly large toolset in which to do so, i.e. smilies, some limited HTML (bold, italic, etc). A small Polling plugin would be terrific as well. Which weblogging systems do Slashdot readers use and recommend? Some complexity isn't a problem; I can work in Perl, HTML, C (among other languages) if I need to. Also, what do people think of adapting Slashcode for such purposes?"

Comments

Movable Type 3 is coming

[Mr. Darl McBride]

MT3 is coming out, and it's really harshing our fun. It supports a central login server with Turing test at sign up (type the twisty word you see here), which makes crap flooding less productive. If someone floods, all current and future posts from that account can be invalidated at once.

The current Movable Type also supports plugins for local Turing tests. 99% of users don't install them because they don't know to look for them, just as over half the MT sites still have the Melody (default user) account still active or the install directory still executable because they don't read the damned instructions.

NO slashcode on shared hosting

[students]

I tried this - did not work. Don't dream about it without root access to the server. Better yet, have the server in your bedroom so you can work on it around the clock for a few weeks. I gave up and went with PHP-nuke, despite the inferior moderation system.

Write your own

[PD]

I wrote all the code that I used to generate pdrap.org in Python, and learned a lot from that.