Yea, unfortunately not everybody has the good fortune of making it to the top of HN. I had a personal Gmail account wrongfully disabled over a year ago, and after filling out every form I could find and not receiving any helpful feedback for a year, I just gave up and decided to cut my losses. However, after reading this article I checked to see if it was still disabled and, lo and behold, I was logged in! I still don't know whether to be happy or pissed, but at least it works for now.