Update: My mistake. Michael Hampton is still supporting Bad Behavior. Maybe I’ll figure out what’s wrong after all.
I’ve disabled the Bad Behavior plugin because it was sporadically blocking me from my own site. Bad Behavior in theory blocks spambots and other desirables from viewing your website altogether, saving your bandwidth and resources and acting as a first-line defense, complementing anti-spam solutions like Akismet and the new Defensio.
I really love the concept, but since Bad Behavior blocks access entirely, false positives are very costly. Unwittingly blocking genuine visitors to my site would be very very bad. I’ve tried to find the problem following instructions from the FAQ and this blog post on false positives, to no avail.
Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t seem to be in active development, and the email for reporting false positives appears to be dead. Oh well, I guess Akismet alone will have to do.
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