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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

There are plenty of great airdrop alts out there. One is deeponion. It has an amazing community and the devs are always working hard. Maybe some are scam but there are many that are not. Just need to do your research and invest in what you think is right.

EBTC is also a very surprising right, and big investors are also very interested in this coin

Because it is quite easy to create a token and run an airdrop. So many people experiencing it even without a project or any roadmap. And people try their chance joining all the airdrops they see in the forum.

Some coins that have a good project use the airdrop as part of their marketing campaign, some depend on to create a strong and large community and make airdrops to grow the community because they know that the majority of beneficiaries will use one way or another and create some movement to their coin.
It all depends on the project. If the are airdropping must there be a reason, you may want to look what is their strategy instead calling scam otherwise you may be missing the chance of getting some money.
Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold is nothing more than airdrop, are you complaining? I don´t think so.

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.

There is nothing wrong to join all airdrop see in the forum but the thing is be careful there is some airdrop that they get your key which os more private so before registering on some airdrop you have to search and study on it so the time you spent on it will never be useless. For all what you do made be so worth.

The main problem are the people out there which buy all those obviously scam tokens. It is ok to claim some for free, but why the hell are people buying into this tokens? Only explanation for this phenonem seems to "Greater fool theory".

There is nothing wrong with a lot of airdrop in the forum, and for me there is no harm we follow airdrop, the most important thing is we have to be more careful and meticulous before filling up the airdrop form to be followed, and before entering the data it would be nice we read their project first , and when we find something as odd as asking for a private key or password do not we fill it, this is definitely cheating.

As you can see a lot of the airdrop thread violate the bitcointalk rules and i will be supporting you to say about the airdrop thread must be closed, caused by all of them just to grab those people's money.
Most of the airdrop project can be considered as a fraud. If you are seeing the latest trend about the etoken just like bubble and that was appearing anytime.
But you can try to report those thread of some of them are violating the rules.

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.

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.

This call for caution from everyone hackers migth leverage on this to steal your coins through malware
Am always sckeptical about free things.

Creating a coin is cheap or free. There are people who can be conviced to buy airdrop coins. So there is nothing but profit!

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.  ;D ;D

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,

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 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.

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 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.

How to know if an airdrop is legit or not? Thank you :) ;) :D

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.

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.

there are so many frauds in this industry, They are using our bitcointalk user IDs.
moderators need to be sensitive about this

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.

Simple reason: Inorganic community building. Though it helps to raise awareness but too many are a pain and useless

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.

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.

Because airdrop is the easiest way to market your coin.

Airdrop is decentralized marketing.
It wouldn't be logical to use google ad campaign to promote a decentralized app, would it be ?