Account Suspension Appeal — Incorrectly Deactivated on June 6
OpenAI Developer Community
June 9, 2026
Banned: June 5, 17:53 UTC
I’ve been appealing through email for days with no response and my account
still hasn’t been restored.
This looks exactly like the June 5 system glitch that hit a bunch of other
users. A lot of them already got the “we incorrectly deactivated your account”
email and their accounts back. I got banned in the same window but nothing
has moved for mine — no reply, no unban.
For context: I’m a CS student focused on deep learning and computer vision.
I use ChatGPT heavily for studying and research. All my chat history,
conversation threads with code debugging, paper discussions, experiment
notes — a lot of important stuff is locked in there right now. Losing access
is a real setback for my work.
I’ve never done anything that should trigger a ban. No automation, no API
misuse, no policy-violating content, no account sharing, no shady payment.
Just normal personal use as a student.
I’m not asking for special treatment — I’m asking for the same manual review
that already cleared the other false positives on June 5. If a human looks at
my account activity, it’ll be obvious there’s no violation.
I’ve read the Usage Policies and I’m confident I haven’t broken any of them.
Thank you.
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