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.
The point I had been trying to make was that they would still continue their same process which you outlined in a recent post, just without the paid signature campaign part, and obviously at a lower "income". I don't participate in account sales and I've never bought one but it seems like accounts themselves still have some value if your just selling accounts with ranks? It even seems like right now they have more value if they are not part of a signature campaign? Maybe this is where I am not thinking correctly?
Since they seem to have so much time on their hands, I would think they would continue doing what they know best (registering accounts and posting useless content to try and sell them) and take the loss but wouldn't they still have some type of market? Primarily newbies (or scammers) wanting to get a jump on the rank process... or someone who actually wants to pay the 2btc and participate in a campaign but they don't want to start with a brand new account (why would they want to pay the 2btc? I'm just assuming payouts will increase with a change like this and entice them back). If that happens, now they would even get a cool new rank of "Supporter" that they can use for scamming or posting more useless content.
I realize there is no perfect solution, and I'd say this is the best idea I've seen... making it harder for them would be better than nothing. And maybe they just don't see it as worth there time and move onto something else, I can try to be optimistic
