I understand the need for blocking BOTs...we are not BOTs but husband and Wife...check our balances, piddly crap...
PM me like you did last time and I'll see what I can do. The fact that you've both been banned for abuse before and now coincidentally both managed to get banned again at the same time does make your behaviour look a little automated.
I work at Realtor.com (NewsCorp) bought us. We do IP Blocks as well.. errors do occur...we set the blocks for 1 hour on minor ocurrances..4 hours on more frequent ones...24 hours for hard core -- permanent for known sites...we always have the means for asking to white-list this IP