In Runescape, if you abuse the report function to try and punish a player that isn’t breaking any rules, you’re the one who’s punished instead.

It’s a great system that causes people to think before they hit report.

Most other services don’t do this, and it results in ‘dogpiling’ reports. This means that people will report someone because they disagree or don’t like them, and if enough people do that then the mods will ban that person “just because.”

Are there any lemmy communities that try to combat this nonsense by penalizing those who abuse the report system?

I’d love to see the scumbags who try to use censorship to support their own agenda get a taste of their own medicine.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    22 hours ago

    If you read again what I wrote instead of jumping to conclusions you would see that I am in contact with other instance admins. We talk about things like this. You’re not the expert here. This is not an issue in general. If there are communities where this is a problem, you can always switch or make a competing one that does not care about reports. The more important part is that reports dont have any automated impact on most lemmy instances, meaning that it doesnt mean shit if you get a 1000 reports per post, which still doesnt happen in general. Otherwise we would be getting informed about it.

    Edit: i checked your post history. This absolutely fits with your question and your reaction to being told its not a problem in general. You are the problem. Aggressive, dismissive language that adds no value to the conversation whatsoever. Please do better or go back to whatever trollfactory you jumped out of. Good bye.