I don't know how many times I need to tell you,
YOU ARE NOT LOSING WHISTLE POINTS FOR SPAM FLASH REVIEWS none. nada. zip.
you won't gain any, but you also won't lose any.
so don't blame me because you're fucking retarded and flagged totally unrelated reviews which happened to not be abusive.
You're garbage whistle isn't because of some new rule. it's because you don't even bother flagging abusive reviews.
the way the system works is that if you flag a non abusive review, you LOSE MORE POINTS than you would if you didn't flag it and instead flagged a real abusive review.
it's not a 1 for 1 ratio
the reason for this is because of people who think having a shinier whistle is important and so they try and see how close they can get to the blurred line of abusive/unhelpful.
Go for the painfully obvious reviews. if it doesn't stick out of the screen as something that's really abusing our review system, DON'T FUCKING FLAG IT!
