Airdrop is decentralized marketing.
It wouldn't be logical to use google ad campaign to promote a decentralized app, would it be ?
Topic: Why to many airdrop (Read 486 times)
Because airdrop is the easiest way to market your coin.
the fact that there are too many airdrops going on cannot make us conclude that many of them are scam, afterall i have seen some great airdrop like Postoken and Deeponion. it is the responsibility of the bounty hunter to duly check the airdrop info before joining the airdrop. however i think this is increasing as the year is gradually ending even bounty campaign have been on increase. not all this ICO are legit but there will still be great one out of many.
it is true that more and more ICO and Airdrops are arriving will further trigger the scammers to join and among them is very detrimental. so we must really be able to choose which one will be able to be light in the future. 
Airdrop is another way to promote coins and attract more people to participate due to it's non-restriction / low restrictions. Anyway just participate in FREE airdrops , but yeah some airdrop seems suspicious because they ask for little amount of ETH with no concrete roadmap or plan. One of few great Airdrop that pass was Postoken , deeponion. Just be cautious when joining one.
Simple reason: Inorganic community building. Though it helps to raise awareness but too many are a pain and useless
It's a quickest and easiest way of distribution, unfortunately almost always connected with SCAM. Basically it's to lure investors to buy after hits exchanges and pump&dump after that.
Be extra careful with giving your details, if you really need make sure your passwords are strong on email and forum passwords can't be the same.
My forum account was hacked within 24h after I participated in AirDrop, that was first and last time I joined AirDrop.
Strongly not recommend.
Be extra careful with giving your details, if you really need make sure your passwords are strong on email and forum passwords can't be the same.
My forum account was hacked within 24h after I participated in AirDrop, that was first and last time I joined AirDrop.
Strongly not recommend.
That's why you need to be very careful on where you sign-up. And if you enter your email, at least have some security features activated so even if they try to hack your email, they need to crack first that security feature.
Sometimes, I just let airdrops passed if my gut feel says that it's a potential scam to collect your data. And because it's the hype nowadays and they know a lot of gullible people here just sign-up without even thinking, they try to lure you with free tokens. Sometimes I saw that a certain individual mistakenly give his eth private key instead of eth address. That's too bad.
there are so many frauds in this industry, They are using our bitcointalk user IDs.
moderators need to be sensitive about this
moderators need to be sensitive about this
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
its not triggers spam, most of it are legit. It is triggering for many buyers for every tokens, so first to have a many buyers so must make some bait like airdrop to get them. I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
It's a quickest and easiest way of distribution, unfortunately almost always connected with SCAM. Basically it's to lure investors to buy after hits exchanges and pump&dump after that.
Be extra careful with giving your details, if you really need make sure your passwords are strong on email and forum passwords can't be the same.
My forum account was hacked within 24h after I participated in AirDrop, that was first and last time I joined AirDrop.
Strongly not recommend.
Be extra careful with giving your details, if you really need make sure your passwords are strong on email and forum passwords can't be the same.
My forum account was hacked within 24h after I participated in AirDrop, that was first and last time I joined AirDrop.
Strongly not recommend.
How to know if an airdrop is legit or not? Thank you 
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I agree this is getting beyond a joke. Mass scamcoin airdrops spamming the forums now, it's hard to see which coins are real or not now. I think the mods should maybe implement a screening process where users have to apply to be checked before they are able to post airdrop info. All the airdrops always have a newbie account making his 1st or 2nd post when they introduce the latest scamcoin.
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
because they are doing the same they did with giveaway, remember when this place was full of spam giveaway coin? now it's full of airdrop coin, but some are good like bitcore, other are just a way to scam i agree
I believe there are many good aridrop such as PosToken which I follow and they are not scam. We must take some look in there to differentiate which scam airdrop and real airdrop.
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
Although there are many junk topics, there are also a lot of good airdrop alts that help bounty hunters earn a lot of profit from it. How to know if an airdrop is junk? I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
maybe because it still not break the rules, will be different about the post, if the post categorized as spam, moderator will ban or delete the post but not the topic, I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
Airdrops of altcoins and new coins or tokens are part of marketing strategies of developers to gain popularity and also part of its advertisement to the people to reach more people. Some airdrops gives good amount of cash when traded to bitcoin and some are not, so you choose wisely. Anyways there is nothing to lose if you join every airdrop. 
Creating a coin is cheap or free. There are people who can be conviced to buy airdrop coins. So there is nothing but profit!
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
This call for caution from everyone hackers migth leverage on this to steal your coins through malware
Am always sckeptical about free things.
Because it's the easiest way to propel a scam. Plebs dig it. In my opinion, the only interesting project that conducted an airdrop is byteball. I'd suggest that when people participating in airdrops, it might be safer to participate in just a token (erc20) airdrop. In that way, you won't need to download wallet which may make your device vulnerable.
I see too much airdrop altcoin in this forum and it mostly just triggers spam, and even they also take advantage of those moments to make fraud.
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
I think moderators need to be wiser in this regard
Actually other Airdrop is just made to steal our information.
To use it with Air drops is also a real goal. So many are now complaining because their usernames use different airdrop altcoins with different Ether addresses. Forum mods should be actionable so that people can avoid it.
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