This is for alphadogg (I can't reply directly to his post).

You've been hellbanned, for this post bagging Edward Tufte: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991211

Which doesn't seem worth a hellban, and you seem a reasonable guy, so I thought I'd let you know. Hopefully you'll read this and be able to talk to someone at HN and sort it out.