Has anyone been getting 404 errors when they comment? I have, even though my comment still goes up.  The WordPress plugin Bad Behavior just blacklisted me on my own site, so I turned that the hell off. Now commenting and posting seem much faster.
Coincidence?
I’d only noticed slow… until today. Then it suggested that I’d been blacklisted for bad behavior (dang, and I didn’t even enjoy it). I tried again and it went through.
Perhaps because you turned off the Mutaween in the meantime.