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Pretty much what the title says. Has the meaning of airdrop changed or something? I notice that every crypto currency and website etc is claiming they have an airdrop which, in reality, are bounty programs.

A scheme where you have to follow a load of social accounts and make posts for a couple coins is not an airdrop.

Airdrop is different from bounty campaigns,airdrop will commonly require you to follow their social media accounts,telegram groups for you to receive your stakes and it is not categorized as a bounty because the effort you have done is incomparable to what bounties effort you will need.Bounties are a lot harder than airdrops because these airdrops will only take 2-3minutes of your time and bounty campaigns will require you an average 2-3 weeks in time.

They are not the same. Airdrops is when you subscribe or follow or join a group like telegram, follow twitter or subscribe youtube. Then register link to them but in bounty, you need to retweet/tweet/post/repost in fb and tweeter. In rewards, you get small amount of token in airdrops than bounties. Maybe because it was easy to do than bounties.

Now it is the way of fast community growing. One airdrop and you can get 3-5k followers and more on twitter/facebook, etc. All rewards are in blogging and signature campaigns. Airdrops are more for fun than earning.

Very true, everywhere you turn is now airdrops on offer, even for ICOs that hasn't gone through their first development stage. the coins on offer on such are also of inferior value if not totally useless. Airdrops is being used wrongly by ICOs to market their projects

Most of these airdrop tokens wont have any value in the future so you will have less chance of earning money from these airdrops compare to the signature and social media bounties because the tokens you will get from these bounties have more chance of getting listed in exchanges which makes these tokens more valuable than the airdrop tokens.

In case you haven't noticed this yet, the bitcointalk community is infested with foreign scammers and assorted other scumbags who have a general problem with the fine points of the English language, in addition to having a very loose relationship with morals and the truth--and so, yeah, it shouldn't be surprising that overused words like "airdrop" and "bounty" get switched around by these hucksters.   

They're using those words to draw in the dirt poor suckers, because they know that the suckers will kill each other over crumbs if it's an airdrop, bounty, campaign, or any other job that doesn't require them to leave their shack and their family, which they likely shouldn't have formed in the first place. 

Business as usual on bitcointalk.

True most are just scam, if all of coins are airdropped, then it is very likely to be a scam. 99% of the projects are going to die in the short term. Airdrop is being used for scam now.

Nice topic! about this thing, im to thinking wtf is happens with airdrops,u need to folow,enter ur email,or ur pasport copy?????!!!what is this for 10$? :DDont understand that peoples who claims this shit,i have one man who claim airdrop and all write what need + folow + facebook and now someone wear hes photo from facebook lol.

The term really does seem to be losing it's meaning and is convoluted. My understanding is that airdrops are simply free coins and bounties require you to do tasks to get "free" coins. Maybe I am wrong, but it does seem like people are using the terms incorrectly now.

Yes, unfortunately most of the airdrops out there became only bounty campaigns. But there are not so many scams circulating like some weeks where ago where all those e coins flooded the whole airdrop market...

Yup.  The "airdrops" are getting shittier by the day as well.  I wish there were a better way to filter through them.  AirdropAlert used to be a great resource but recently they are posting a bunch of "follow us on twitter / facebook / telegram / retweet our pinned tweet and receive 10 Shitcoins (when there are 200 million -2 billion coins minted).  Sometimes they even list an "airdrop" that is just a referral scheme and you get no coins even though you register unless you invite others.

The whole idea of an "airdrop" has turned into a giant deuce.

Airdrops is completely different from a bounty campaigns when it comes on obtaining those tokens.We do know that airdrops is one of the most easiest way to obtain token without any doing task just a simple register then you are eligible to recieve which unlike on bounty programs which you will really need to done something that they do ask before you can get tokens and thats how it normally works and you can also tell the difference of amounts of tokens being given among two things.

As i remember back when you will received airdrops just by joining their website and giving your wallet and they give it to you.
now the airdrops is like bounty campaign. didn't know why they call it airdrops instead of bounty.

Did you mean like this one?this one also?

Most of the people here indeed are just for the money,polluting the whole forums with shitposts,and making this whole community a big joke.
OP needs to know that airdrops and bounties are much different to each other,he should  be doing his part of researching or learn something basics so he wont be added in shitposters.

I agree that the very sense of airdrop has been changed.  Airdrop is like a sample pack of any existing product. Just imagine that at a spa (for example)  they offer you a sample pack of some massage oil or whatever,  and then at the reception desk they ask you to pay for it.  You will feel like you were cheated.  All the same with airdrops.

I can't say that there are any strict meaning of the word "airdrop". Moreover, since they are handling their tokens to us - they are in power to use numerous requirements(it OK, it absolutely easy to fulfill them).

Also it is a way to sort out multi-account persons.

In my opinion the two terms are pretty much inter changeable, there are a lot of airdrops nowadays that have the characteristics of a bounty program, however, usually you need to jump through a few hoops and your in. Bounties are on going task/reward, task/reward type set ups.

Free airdrops was never categorized as a bounty,because you will just need to fillup some form for you to get your stakes and it will only take 2-3minutes to be able to receive your tokens which bounty campaigns would require you to promote them weekly until the ICO has ended,so this free airdrops will still remain as a free way of getting money.

When I drop a lot of money to you the only effort you will make is catch it. That is what airdrop is. You wont need to do anything.

You are telling the wrong idea about what real airdrop is. They made so much work and now this hoodlums are copying names of accounts here just so they could get more.
It just made the whole forum inviting to those thieves.
Developers now got tired of checking legitimate users. That is the problem.

Its just you because airdrop was never a part of the bounty programs of these ICOs,reality airdrops cannot be called as bounties because you will only be required to fillfull some fancy google forms and you are good to go,you will just wait for the tokens to come into your wallet,bounties are much different because you will need a lot of time to get your stakes.

Bounty campaigns are a lot better than airdrops because airdrops will only require you to fillup some form and then you will receive some tokens that has less chance of getting listed in exchanges unlike to these bounty campaigns will the tokens has more chance of getting listed because it came from the legit projects of these good developers.

Absolutely and i totally agree with The Pharmacist.It even explains the majority with just one sentence,so i highlightened it  ;)

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It's better to have a real job than to rely on something that you're not familiar with and be fooled.

There are a lot of airdrops nowadays that have the characteristics of a bounty program, however, usually you need to jump through a few hoops and your in. Bounties are on going task/reward, task/reward type set ups.

I don't think so because doing minimal amount of work and getting paid handsomely doesn't seem like a bad gig. Why does everything have to be free and easy in this life? Not everything is going to fall into your lap and one day you will have to put in some work, don't complain about this please.

Bounties are a lot better than airdrops,it is just only you who doesnt know the difference between the two,aidrops are much more easier to do than doing bounty campaigns which takes a lot of time before you get your rewards,averagely 2-3 weeks in time but these free airdrops will only take 2-3 minutes of time for your to able to get the airdrops.

I agree. Everybody is mixing up 'airdrop' and 'bounty'.
Airdrops do not require work, bounties do.

Yes ypur right and you need to finish your obligation from bounty campaign unlike airdrop  every minutes you can see and quick to disapear.

Nope not yet, if a good alts going into that program i think it's an effective way of earning small profits or even bigger because of its potential to rose up its value and besides airdrops are not the same with bounty programs, you might misunderstood it, i saw some bounty programs having an airdrop as well so that two activities are different but might have just been posted in the same thread here.

There is a great variety involved. Some airdrops just want you to join their TG and some want you to spend a lot of time doing social media hype for them. I ignore the latter, give me bounty.

I understand what a lot of you are saying in that the typical 'airdrop' requires less than a bounty but, to be honest, the "follow my twitter, post a tweet, join my facebook, post a facebook status, join my telegram channel and group" model is not at all something which shoul dbe entertained as an airdrop. It is a bounty.

A bounty is defined as an action which will create trade/demand for an item/service. By joining all the social networks and making social posts you are assisting with marketing and helping to create demand for the ICO. People who do all this work to receive like $5 dollars of crypto are literally being used as promoters an a really low salary.

i have been in the airdrop scene for a while and it started with "fill a form and get a drop" then it progressed to "fill a form and join telegram for verification" now it is a straight up bounty.

Indeed, the word "airdrop" lost its meaning months ago... I miss the days when registering for an airdrop meant to just input your wallet (and maybe your email address or Bitcointalk ID). Nowadays you must fo some work in order to receive the so called airdrop and usually you must have a Twitter account, a Facebook, Telegram, Medium, Reddit. Also, more and more want you to refer people. Even worse, the new trend is to require KYC... WTF?!?  ::) You send your passport, a photo of you holding it and utility bills to an unknown company and you do that for tokens that sometimes worth less than $1 (I receive plenty lately, it doesn`t even worth the time and gas to sell them)...

Every airdrop should just asked for an address to send to, and nothing else.
The rest should be included in bounty program.
Social, stakes, simple tasks or whatever.

You're right, I noticed it too. To get some tokens (and then in the future, not immediately) you have to take too many actions. Taking into account the fact that rarely any of the airdrops gives at least some profit, I think now it's pointless to do this.

It's not just you OP. I have the same feeling, there is just to many of them this days.
I think that most airdrops are actually harmful for the projects. Mostly because of communication channels being full of people with banal problems and questions, sometimes just full of spam and vulgarity. For me its a no go, cause me and my potential issue wont even be noted by someone competent. Sure, there are exceptions but rare.

Of course it's not just you, it happens to everyone, because airdrop is a cheaper way to conduct your fast ICO, you did not think about it? Just think, why do people give free tokens? In order to then sell them quickly, I think that this is so.

Airdrop means a free coin to everyone and bounty means a way to help the project to advertise its project to the more audiences. Both was really different in my opinion. But remember this time there are some airdrops try to make the same rules just like bounty due to there were some parties are abusing the airdrop itself.
Airdrop is a free shares for anyone and there is no relationship with bounty.

I think the concept has been abuse, before it is used to built a strong community around a project, but now everyone wants to have control over a project, so they give out few percentage of the tokens and keep the rest to dump on the market when there is hype around their project

I agree with this. Recently I have seen that the requirements that are requested to be taken into account in an airdrop sometimes seem excessive, when before it was enough to do a simple task such as sending your ether or bitcoin address to receive the corresponding tokens. Now you are requesting to register in a myriad of sites and do certain tasks, and in some well known cases as DeepOnion, its airdrop consisted rather of a signature campaign.

Airdrops are technicAlly just free coins in exchange of you doing some requirements need such as subscribing to their newletter using your email, joining their telegram, following their socil networks channels, all for  3$ dollars. Yeah, it's kinda messy now, unlike the airdrops before that has decent value.