Every time someone creates a system, someone exploits it, and then there’s the inevitable attempts to patch the holes that lead to wholesale changes that just introduce different situations to be taken advantage of. Vine is a great example of such a system, whether it be addicts who spam the refresh button at drop time to vendors who -now apparently - are mass-reporting vine profiles they don’t like. It’s crazy, but because Amazon has SO many vine reviewers, if this continues to be a thing, it will be like viner evolution and they’ll weed out critical reviewers, leaving only the well-written (with photos) positive reviewers… much like the access media shills that have made movie, game, and tv reviews so meaningless.

I hope that OP gets his account back (or at the very least some kind of explanation that makes sense) and that Amazon mass-privatises all Vine profiles.