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Thanks to a notice from Nate after he got blocked from commenting on Martha’s blog, I did a little digging and uncovered an update (just published today) to the WordPress Bad Behavior plugin that fixes an issue where it was blocking pretty much everyone from commenting.

From the Bad Behavior blog:

All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site.

Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.

My apologies to anyone who was prevented from posting here or on Martha’s blogs; the issue should be resolved now.

For those of you who run WP blogs and use this plugin, be sure to update ASAP.