[CamperBob2]

Text of originalgeek's hellbanned(?) reply to this subthread:

  I ran the find command suggested by the OP, 
  and it came up with a long list of files -- all 
  names that I had intentionally and manually deleted. 
  It seems when one of my "other" machines booted up, 
  it put 0 byte files back in their place. A review of 
  the file's history, by clicking Dropbox -> Browse on 
  Dropbox Website shows the original file, the day I deleted 
  it, then a few minutes later, a 0 byte file added back.

Edit: posted because it seemed like the sort of information I'd want if I worked at Dropbox and were looking for clues to the nature of the bug. If this isn't kosher let me know (rather than simply downvoting) and I'll delete the reposted comment, if possible.

[peterhajas]

Why was this reply hell banned?

[CamperBob2]

The user who posted it presumably ran afoul of a rule (possibly an unwritten one) in an earlier comment. You'd need to dig through his/her comment history to try to figure out what happened.

[Dylan16807]

Sometimes. There is also a flawed system that can auto-hellban people unlucky enough to get a bunch of downvotes on an early comment, before they have a karma buffer.