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Airdrops are everywhere now: you go to telegram and channels send you tons of airdrops, you go to youtube and they give you videos on how to participate in another airdrop, you try to lose your self hanging with friends and one of them starts telling you about airdrop he participates in.

I noticed that only scam ICOs offer airdrops to spread thei shitcoins. But good reliable ICOs such as eCoinomic.net (http://eCoinomic.net) have no airdrop, only bounty. So do you guys agree that nowadays airdrop is an attribute of scam?

If airdrop was made to scam people then I would disagree. A lot of people are participating airdrop and as I observed they can earn money from it and there is also a news that some airdrop was made to scam people and it is a big bad news for all newbies because it can discourage them in participating.

Honestly, we don't need more airdrop but in fact, the airdrop hunters don't care about that. They are only joining more and more airdrop without trying to look at the background or even try to do a research to define if it's a good token or not. Airdrop is one of fair distribution as long as it has been running by an honest person.

That's really strange, don't them airdrops hunters realize that they waste their time for nothing cause they don't get no profit?

Depends but I think for the most part airdrops are a pretty good way for ICOs to market themselves in the beginning and attract people quickly.

Airdrops tend to be one of the best marketing strategy that an ICO can offer.

You are giving free taste to the people that you know that can be a potential investor that you can get with but airdrops nowadays are very shady and it has been taken over by scammy ICOs.

Every thing has a stage, before the community airdrop, and then the ICO, now the telegraph airdrop, this is a stage, I do not know what is the next stage.

Personally I don't believe in airdrop any more, alot of them are scam and one need to be careful doing it though this doesn't mean all of then are not real but a handful of them are not legit. So I think we should just stick with the bounty.

Airdrops are neccesary at the beggining because spreading the word about the project is very important, and thus it is one kind of a marketing thing

I think that now too much scam airdrops and if you don't want to spend your time, find good bounty and make signature of it. Practically every day I'm reading about scam in airdrops, check the forum

I don't understand how airdrops could be a scam. Unless they ask you to do certain things in order for your to receive the aridrop, like giving away personal data, or install malicious wallets, then I don't see how they could do you any harm.

Of course that if most ICOs are scams, then most airdrops won't be able to give you any profit as well. So I'm not saying that airdrops are a good investment, and most of them should end up being just a waist of time, but you shouldn't have any problems with them.

Comparing them to bounties though, then I would say that bounties could end up being more risky, since the time invested is greater than the time invested in airdrops, and there are no guaranties that the sell will go well either, so the token you are given could end up with no value as well.

Most airdrops now are giving scammy coins. There are also few airdrops and ICOs that offer airdrops but with value. I dont think that airdrop of a project make it scam. Like for example, ShipChain, they have bounty and airdrop as well but it is not a scam.

But on the other hand it decreases the value of tokens in the eyes of community cause founders are ready to give it in such great amounts for doing easiest things.

Airdrop is a legit way to create a community and to spread a project's new token to a big number of people. But we do not really need more airdrops. What we need are legitimate airdrops. Airdrops that are worth our time and effort. You are right in saying that airdrops are everywhere, and yet the majority of these airdrops are nothing but scams and craps. 

I dont like to participate any any airdrop because its reward so low and maximum scam its just like a time waste . so that i always like to join bounty campaign and its reward always better .

Yes, I agree, they are starting to annoy me too. I really don't have time to get through all of them, check tokens and projects and decide on which one I want to do. I believe this needs to stop, because they are spreading like a disease. It would be much better if we would have more quality airdrops than quantity.

That's part of their marketing and it's a way to pay those advertisers.

It's either they really don't have enough money to cover the marketing through bitcoin as an alternative they give reward through their token.

Airdrop is good for everyone coz it will have a future someday it's like you giving free taste and needs to advertise your product so investors will try to join and invest on ICO. But be sure to give your Eth Address not your private key. Goodluck!

Most of airdrop are Scam but some of the are legit. Airdrop is one strategy of ICO's to get big community its because one of the requirement of some big exchanges you must have big community to be list. So giving token is one reason to become successful.

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Yes airdrop could be an attribute to determine that this project is scam. But in the other hand airdrop is the best way to catch the big community in telegram and twitter. If a legit project purchade an airdrop its something worth 20$. Well there is still good airdrop. 3 good over 20 airdrop. My ratio

Yes, it can be. Well before most people are being scammed because of those airdrops need donations for something that I really don't know since it is free by just doing some task that will definitely boost the popularity of the project but as time pass by people already learned the lesson about scam airdrops. It was profitable before but now I think it is not worth it. Honestly, I still join some airdrops but I am picky now.

Base on my own personal opinion airdrop distribution does not justify a project as a scam but it is use to achieve a huge number of supporters and it is used as a medium to spread the good news of their projects around. Many people had already benefitted from different airdrops out there given by ICOs projects, the likes of nucleus vision is not exempted.

well, if the airdrop are insufficient for those who want to do airdropping,then we need more. I don't know how many or what is the percent of people who participate in airdrop because we know not all participate in this. others are mpre focus on their usual job.like bounty campaign,signature campaign, investing and trading.

in my opinion i really dont need airdrops, just waste my time. because so many airdrop is scammer and we dont know where is airdrop is real. i always follow airdrops and hope get a free coin and what can i get now? nothing. so i give up about airdrops

True airdrop sucks. I am not sure if you are promoting your business through this or not but you made a point of airdrops being sucker punches! I mean they never work out as we need to spend lot of time following their steps, we end up joining huge number of telegram groups, discord groups plus we have to be active on it all the time shit like that. What we get in return of this is really worst and not worthy. Regarding such project getting scam is not always true. I mean there are many who promote the business through airdrop in the later stages when they are successful and just want others to know about it.

We need airdrops because this is the way to encourage people to participate in crypto industry, since normally new people don't believe in crypto unless they tried from airdrop and receive token that they can convert to fiat. But due to rapid growth of spammed airdrop newcomers are discourage. I believe we need airdrop but only the legit one. The thing is how to eliminate the scam.

not all airdrops do not pay, back again to the participants to first see the roadmap, whitepaper, and telegram campaign. If it has good prospects it is likely that the airdrop from the project will pay the airdrop hunters. But if it does not do a re-check as I said, it will be a waste of your time

I do not think you could have needed a lot of airdrops but I do not because too much is not good too and so you better buy altcoin which is low and can be good for the future because now altcoin that can survive for the future

We definitely do not need more airdrops. Even airdrop is damaging the project. It's just for making advertising. Unnecessary.

YEs we need it, for us to learn a free token. Airdrops is work that you all have need is effort for 5minutes. It was a kind of simple work and be rewarded by token. Easy money. The more, the merrier.

Airdrop if cheated. They can only get subscriber's information, such as name, email .. to be able to promote their ICO later. or they will sell it to anyone else. So today's airdrop is hardly good and not worth it

nah i dont think all coin that have airdrop is a scam and shit coin like you say. There good coin such as pundi x which is have a airdrop program. Pundi  is a good program that i think will be use in future and it trying to make trasaction using cryptocurrency. I do think airdrop is bad idea and many airdrop are shitcoins but not all of them.