b. it's easy to run the numbers that sig spamming can be profitable even for people in one of the richest countries (i.e. 14 Eyes countries) if done using multiple accounts.
I assume that by "profitable" you mean that someone could be a sig spammer for a living.
In theory it is possible for a sig spammer to post for a living in a 1st world country, but I don't think this scales the same way it does for those in 3rd world countries.
I would assume you need to earn at least 0.1 btc per week to reasonably use sig spamming as your only income. With btc trading at $11,000, this works out to $57,200/year, but you will need to pay self employment taxes totaling 15.3%, so your income would be around the equivalent of a salary of $49,600. If you remove $4,200 for health insurance/HSA ($350/month, which is probably on the low side), you have an income of roughly $45,400/year.
Most sig deals have rules against having multiple accounts, but we can ignore this for the purposes of this exercise.
The best paying deal, Chip Mixer pays 0.0375/week, and has 58 slots.
I estimate that
sportsbet has 6 hero/legendary slots that pay 0.01/week, and 10 senior slots that pay 0.005/week.
Using the ChipMixer and Sportsbet campaigns:
3 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), two hero/legendary SportsBet spots (0.02/week), and one senior SportsBet spot (.005/week)
one person could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), and 6 of the remaining 7 senior SportsBet spots (0.025/week)
The above would take 8 ChipMixer spots, and would leave 1 remainig senior SportsBet spots.
YoloDice has 5 hero/legendary posts that pay a maximum of 0.015/week (rounded up from 0.0147), 5 senior spots that pay 0.0105/week, and 5 full member spots that pay 0.0065/week (rounded from 0.0063). This includes all bonuses.
Using the ChipMixer and YoloDice campaigns:
5 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), one hero/legendary spot (0.015/week), and one senior spot (0.0105/week) to earn 0.1005/week
1 person could take 2 ChipMixer spot (0.075/week), and 4 full member spots (0.026/week) to earn 0.101/week
The above would take 12 ChipMixer spots, and would leave one full member YoloDice spot remaining.
The
BitCasino deal has 5 slots that pays 0.018/week
Using the ChipMixer and Bitcasino campaigns:
2 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), and 2 BitCasino Spots to earn 0.111/week
1 person could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), the remaining BitCasino Spot (0.018/week), the remaining YoloDice spot (0.0065/week), and one spot on a very low paying deal.
The above would take 6 ChipMixer spots, all of the BitCasino spots, and the last YoloDice spots.
The
FortuneJack deal pays 0.015/week and has 10 spots
Using the ChipMixer and FortuneJack campaigns:
5 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), and 2 FortuneJack spots to earn 0.105/week
The above would take 10 ChipMixer spots, and all of the FortuneJack spots.
The
Bitsler deal has 15 spots that appear to pay $150/week.
Using the ChipMixer and Bitsler campaigns:
7 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots, and 2 Bitsler spots for a total of ~0.1 btc + $25 / week
The above would take 14 ChipMixer spots, and would leave 1 Bitslet spot remaining.
The
Bustadice deal has 16 spots that pay a maximum of $100/week. As with the Bitsler deal, it is unclear if there are limitations as to how many spots there are for each rank.
Using the ChipMixer and Bustadice campaigns:
4 people could take 2 ChipMixer spots (0.075/week), and 3 Bustadice spots
The above would take the last ChipMixer spots and leave 4 Bustadice spots remaining.
I would estimate that one person could take all the
Crypto-games spots, and all the remaining Bustadice spots, and the one remaining Bitslet spots to earn ~0.1 + $50 / week. This person would need to make a silly amount of posts each week that I don't think is realistic.
An additional 4-5 people could take the remaining spots between
Wolf.Bet, and
WinDice, but they would need to make a silly amount of posts each week.
The above demonstrates at most 30 people from 1st world countries could earn a living from signature advertising, or maybe around 35 if you count those needing to make silly amounts of posts (>400) per week
Unfortunately, there are a few bad apples out there that take advantage of the money making opportunity associated with signature campaigns.
Depending on the board one visits, it sometimes seems as if there are entire orchards of rotting apples...
I think this partially stems from a lack of moderation. The lack of moderation leads to less non-sig spammer users being interested in reading/posting in these sections, which increases the percentage of spam in these sections, which cascades into even fewer non-spammers wanting to post in these sections.
This highlights some of the drawbacks associated with globalism (globalism is not perfect, but is a net positive to the world economy, and the standard of living of everyone).
I'd say there are two reasons:
a. not enough globalism, there is enough for people from poorer countries to spam for money because they have Internet access, but if the world was more globalized there would be no need for that as they would have more opportunities at 'normal' jobs, because it would be easier to invest money where they live, and they would have an easier time moving to richer countries;
Low standards of living is most commonly caused by corruption and oppression in governments.
There are also many jobs that must be done on a localized basis.
Probably most importantly, the sig-spammers use very similar skills that basic globalized jobs require, which implies the sig spam problem is not a lack of jobs in their local economy.
Ultimately, disincentives need to be given for users to not post garbage, and incentives need to be given for users to post useful content. A modest fee (by third world standards) to enable signatures with any meaningful features would probably put a fairly large dent into the amount of useless posts because those who spam would be afraid of loosing the money they invested in their fee to enable signatures.
They'd just treat it as an investment soon to be recouped.
The idea is that these people are dealt with quickly enough so that the investment cannot be easily recouped if all you are posting is garbage. Those that have recently paid the fee, and are wearing a commercial signature could be closely monitored for the first couple months, and garbage they post can be aggressively removed. If someone has enough low effort/garbage posts removed (not bumps, nor off topic posts that have moderate effort put into them) within a specific unit of time, they should be considered for a ban automatically.
