[deadfece]

I know in a certain infamous forum, it was something like $10 to make an account. If you got banned, you could just fork out another $10 on a new account. Which certainly limited some behaviors, or at least made them expensive.

Depending on the implementation of a pay-to-comment scenario, it could still be profitable for the scammers to pay. They would definitely be tracking CTR or whatever their equivalent is on scam campaigns.

In this case, the scammers are all using similar profile photos, so that part of the whack-a-mole seems like easy pickins. At least at creation time, they could fuzzy compare the profile photos of the commenter and the channel. And compare among other commenters.

The scammers would definitely move on to something else, but it seems like the scammers are scoring a lot of really easy wins right now.

I hate scammers and I love ruining their day, but this is one of many areas where I can't give more attention to it than the platform can.

[lakomen]

Steam requires you to spend at least $5 on a game before you can comment. I guess that's why so many accounts get banned for nothing at all