Re: Account Farmers are the new Ponzis

If so, a 2BTC charge on the 'Supporter' status means they can still technically get or create accounts, and still post nonsense and crap for the purpose of gaining higher status accounts for reselling, just without a signature campaign, obviously making less money in the process, but they should still get something on the account sale which I assume will keep them going.

I disagree that this would be case. The difference here is that when they spam right now, they don't have to worry about a ban because either they will:
1) Buy a new account (which does not cost a lot).
2) Create another/use another.

If there's an added cost of 2 BTC per signature, they risk a lot of money each time they try to spam. It would most likely net them a negative amount as they would be caught before they could ROI.

I'm saying they wouldn't even pay the 2BTC for the status... they just spam on accounts with no signature until they get high enough to get some type of value for the account, if they get banned for spamming, its just lost time.

I agree that they wouldn't pay. The spamming would cease as the account would have no value if it couldn't be used for signature campaigns. You seem to think people would still pay for accounts if the accounts couldn't generate BTC. They wouldn't.

Quote from: jambola2 on May 06, 2016, 07:51:55 PM

So, playing devils advocate, I'd say that signature campaigns don't necessitate spam, it's just alongside lax moderation. Killing the micro-economy of new users who have found usable amounts of BTC only through sig campaigns may be bad for BTC too.

They definitely necessitate spam. I don't think that can be debated. You do make a solid point about killing off a micro-economy of new users. However, I believe that most of those users probably gamble their funds away to the very people paying them to advertise, likely putting in their own funds to fuel their newfound gambling addiction as well. In other words, the spammers themselves probably end up victims in the end. Eliminating these campaigns would probably be doing them a favor.