abusive reviews should jump off the screen at you just screaming 'I'M ABUSIVE' if you don't notice it as such at a first glance, then don't bother flagging it.

the flagging system is not an instantaneous process. It can take time between you flagging something and it actually being dealt with, from minutes to weeks.

If you have a low whistle level, it may take even longer if you flag something that is NOT abusive, because others probably won't flag those. It takes more than one person to bring a review to our attention, so if you have a low level it still has a way to go before being brought up.

There's no expiration date on your flags. you can flag something wrong the day you first create your account and it might not be dealt with until today or next year after enough people have made the same mistake.

What you lose when you are wrong is more than what you stand to gain if you are right. It's a nasty curve.

Garbage is NOT rock bottom. You can flag yourself into oblivion if you really want to. But since you will have no effect on things with a garbage whistle you'll probably need to have some pretty bad luck to keep losing points.

abusive reviews should jump off the screen at you just screaming 'I'M ABUSIVE' if you don't notice it as such at a first glance, then don't bother flagging it.

Really ancient reviews will never get you negative whistle points. In some cases they are deleted, in others, flags are cleared with no penalty given. In no case will you lose points on an old review. If you see somebody giving off this as some type of fact or rule of the mods, they are talking out of their ass.

That being said, if you really want to help the site out, try to find the most recent of abusive reviews. It doesn't do us any good deleting really old reviews from people who haven't visited the site in years and it's not that nice to ban somebody for something they had done a while ago.

The whistle system was created to help artists. You bring abuse to our attention, and we take it off of a flash to HELP THE AUTHOR. There is absolutely no focus on the those who flag things beyond if you are good at it, you get a better whistle and have more weight when you flag things, and if you're wrong, you get a broken whistle and we don't have to deal with you throwing the wrong stuff at us.

There's no numbers, figures, ratios, graphs or anything known about the whistle system. Liljim made it and he's been tight lipped ever since. We don't know. If somebody is telling you numbers or how many flags gets you to what...they're talking out of their ass and you shouldn't bother listening to them.

I hope this helps you guys out a bit.

abusive reviews should jump off the screen at you just screaming 'I'M ABUSIVE' if you don't notice it as such at a first glance, then don't bother flagging it.