DeepOnion is growing healthily. We see a big growing community which is very active and helpful. While we are very happy that many members help the comminity, we do notice that there are a portion of the members, almost never appear in this thread or any DeepOnion-related threads, they just post some very brief messages to make up the 10 in some other threads. Their intentions are just to collect free stuff and likely to dump to make a quick profit.
Unfortunately our current rules don't exclude them. We want to get suggestions from the community: (1) do we exclude them after 1-2 more airdrops? Just to give them a chance to participate (2) do we exclude members whose posts are mostly getting free rewards from different threads? (3) We also want suggestions from you how to better develop the community.
I will be honest.. You blame the people who posts mainly in other threads... What's the problem with that? They are bringing you new people, who don't know the coin! On the other hand, the majority of people posting on the ann repeat the same stuff again and again and again and again. Yes, it helps keep the thread bumped but it also makes the community appear like a huge circle jerk.
Furthermore, for people with a job or real life this makes following the ann almost impossible. One of them is me, I find it really hard to follow announcements because everyday we have 20 new pages of the same stuff, or people posting stupid crap just to get their 10 posts. Only a handful of people here make meaningful contributions, like new graphics, memes etc.
That's my 2 cents
If I understand correctly, the idea of dev is: With a week is enough time for you to join other topics and participate in the main theme of Onion. There are people who have enough posts in other masters but very few posts in this topic. Why?
I never had to bother counting my writings, because every week I participated in at least 5-6 other threads that I was watching and also contributing on this topic. Every week at least I have 20 ~ 30 valid posts.
Think, dev does not blame anything. He has worked hard enough to develop this community, and where are you guys? And now you lament here?
Please allow me to laugh 5 minutes. Lol
I think we are having a constructive discussion here, well IMO I believe that posting in other threads can help a lot of people
to be aware of deeponion, we have plenty of members in this forum and personally I did not know this project by this thread but by seeing
more members here are wearing the deep onion signature.
Also, IMO not all members in the campaign are really good technically but I am sure they are doing the best they can to promote this project in
any way.
While the airdrop in itself is an enticing freebie, there are tons of freebies of bitcointalk. I mean DeepOnion is a long term commitment with some relatively strict rules as it is, the way I think, you have to at least SOMEWHAT believe in the coin to want to join the air drop.
You can change the rules, but I don't feel like that necessarily addresses the freebie stopping issue regardless. You could also alienate good Onion supporters based on the rules you create.
I think devs should just focus on making this the gold standard for security/privacy in cryptoworld. Everything else will fall in place. I mean over the past 2-3 weeks, the amount of air drop participants that were paid have dropped. I think the rules as is will weed out a good portion of members with time. I mean just looking at other threads, it's clear, a lot of people don't have hodl discipline. I'd be shocked if the amount of air drop members in the final rounds is more than the current amount. Whatever's left in the final rounds will be dominated by core Onion supporters.
I think a spread is good regardless though. Sometimes people in it for freebies may also not realize what they have and when it matures and they realize they have something special all of a sudden they become fascinated by it.
Besides posters are like a swarm outside of this thread, and personally speaking, when I see alot of good posters rep the same banner, it usually makes me look into stuff I hadn't planned on. TBH, I came to DeepOnion via banners outside this post and I wasn't even clear on what an airdrop was at the time.
Follow up story coming up later today. 
, ahahaha it will be huge dude 