hey, just wanted to let you know that your account must have been marked as spam, because all of your comments have been marked as dead for the past week or so.

I'm seeing this a lot, lately. People that are hell-banned for no apparent reason.

I think this is very unfair...

When you get a message "you are banned, go away" by accident you can at least contact the admin and argue against it. Now you don't even know it happened.

Yep, I agree. I think the system needs some human oversight, especially with the number of false positives I've seen.

(You're probably the 10th person I've contacted to let them know about a hellban.)

Maybe it's an idea for a site, www.amihellbanned.com :-) Or aremypostsvisibleorjustforme.com :p