Did you put a space between the pound and your text?

# should look like this

Pound, check out Markdown syntax somewhere online. There’s a ton of different flavors, but most of the basics (headings/bold/italics/links/etc) are the same.

Huh, that is funky. Fingers crossed mine survives. I think I’ll go and set up some backups, now that I think about it.

Easy way to avoid this: choose a different port. I think it’s a safe bet the crawlers are just checking 25565. I’ve had a server up for months with zero issues.