I lately marked a bunch of flash reviews as abusive that were obviously done by spambots (their comments contained links to various sites and told you what that site offers, including merchandise).

However, this still apparently counts as misuse of the whistle, since mine is now garbabe o.o

For those who don't know regarding such as abusive marked reviews: Afaik a mod checks them, and if it's really abuse it gets deleted and those which blew their whistle get point. Otherwise, the comment stays and the accordant people get minus points instead.)

I've seen quite a view NG'lers with a broken whistle that most likely never intended to abuse the function (E.g. Eddsworld, The-Swain, DarqV).

One of these accounts that spammed such reviews that i checked lately are banned now. So this means these spam reviews seem to be abusive after all... which kinda makes sense:
"Do not use the review space for the purpose of promoting things. Stick to reviewing the movies - we don't want to hear about how great your website is. Also, posting links to websites that reward you for sending hits is prohibited; we will delete your account for the first offense with no warning. [...]"

I unextensively once flagged a comment as abusive in the past, but this didn't do anything to my whistle.

I wonder what went wrong here...

Edit: Someone PM'd me that he got a garbage whistle without doing anything either.

I just gambled a bit. Those 14 reviews are clearly chain letter spam. If my whistle still stays garbage after these reviews are deleted, i'm pretty in a pretty deep misblow mass. Edit2: User banned, whistle still garbage... >.>

However, this whistle FAQ also says you can blow if:
"It contains excessive use of CAPS or spam [and if it] is completely irrelevant: copy-pasted unrelated text, babble (ggeafrkealkfjealfkjae), etc..."