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.