lucy24 - 2:18 am on Jan 1, 2013 (gmt 0)

I don't want to just wholesale-ban Baidu only to fix PHP errors...

Seems like a perfectly acceptable reason to me. Lots of folks wholesale-ban Baidu just because they're, uhm, Baidu. They're somewhere on the continuum between "I don't like your face" and "Shoot to kill".

See ongoing thread next door in SSID: it's peppered with phrases like "I feel your pain" and "I spoke too soon" that always seem to come up once Baidu gets involved...