I loaded the page in other browsers and saw my comment, but now there are like 20 others saying the same thing but my comment id is the predecessor to the one that's at the top (so i was first ;] ). what symptom tells you I was hellbanned?
@bobx11 - you weren't hellbanned, @jacobian was. But no one can reply to a comment from a hellbanned user, so the custom is to reply to a parent comment in the hope that the hellbanned user may see it.
If you had been hellbanned yourself, then you would see your own comments, but other users wouldn't see them unless they enabled "showdead" in their HN settings. And non-logged-in visitors would never see them. So viewing an HN page you've commented on from an incognito window is a good way to check that.
