How I got out of vine jail and kept my Gold status
Let me begin by saying that I know this isnt interesting and am only writing it for the few people in the future who might be in the my same predicament and try to search for an answer.
I spent about a month and a half in jail, after becoming Gold and always having consistently Excellent reviews (half of which had images attached, never submitted a video). It was a bummer, but I kind of needed it given I had gone overboard and was ordering faster than I could review stuff because its a fucking gauntlet out there once items start dropping and I also wait til I genuinely use something before reviewing. That being said, I had 12 pages of items needing review going back a few months, so I probably deserved it. My percentage was above 60%, but not by much.
What I did: I wrote to support about what the issue was and how I could resolve it and they sent a very cheerful, empathetic message about how scary it must be, how grateful they are for me, and to just keep doing what Im doing. Essentially, I got nothing. I had about a month until my review date, so I figured I could write five reviews a day until then and be finished before the deadline. Then I remembered I actually had to be at 90% by two weeks before the review date, as that is the "review period".
So I grinded the fuck out and got my numbers to 95% in the course of a few days. Each review was genuine, I didn't chatGPT it, I messed with each product, took pictures where it felt necessary. I treated the reviews regularly like ones I had done in the past, I just turned them out like I had a paper due in college.
What I learned: You don't need to wait until your review period to get out of jail, I regained access to RFY and the pit (Additional Items) within a week of reaching 90%.
I would suspect that if you are in jail, you should raise your percent reviewed to what your level requirements are, forget about 60%. If I am wrong on that, it certainly won't hurt to follow it anyway.
Then came the review period, I was nervous that even if I stayed above 90%, having been in jail would tarnish my record or my maniacal method of catching up would have played a factor, but it worked! The review period proceeded like normal where my stats were greyed out but I still had access and about 16 hours later I was still at Gold with my stats reset to zero.
Hope this is helpful to someone. You can get yourself out of jail! If you have any questions I'm happy to answer now or in the future, but that just about covers it.