I am inclined to agree with you here.

DeepOnion airdrop successfully received - thank you crypto-rainbow and the DO Team!
Onwards and onions everyone!!

Not every post you make on bitcointalk necessarily increases your membership level - I believe there is a fixed limit of 14 posts per week that do.

'Secretly' does not seem the correct word here.

Send me your onions then. My onion address is in my profile somewhere. If you can't find it I'll provide it to you.

This is hilarious!! 10 onions says an Aussie made this! Which reminds me crypto-rainbow, I think I may owe you 5 onions due to our little wager last week?!

Hey HK - it looks like no-one has answered your question as yet so I'll attempt to do so.
As far as I understand donning an avatar is not a mandatory requirement for participation in the airdrop - though it is quietly encouraged.
However, only bitcointalk members at Senior Membership level or above are able to don an avatar, so it is not an issue you currently need to be concerned about in any case.
In short: Those folk who are able to use an avatar will receive more Onion than you and I - even if they don't use their avatar.

Ooh, just spotted this lollipop! This is proof - obviously - that the DO Dev Team is keeping all their PoS onions for themselves  

Another interesting project. Since I am quite fond of Monero I see no reason why I shouldn't embrace Sumocoin also. ('Embrace' is admittedly an overstatement - little fish like myself can really only afford to tickle).

The results may prove to be interesting - will the gain in participants offset the shake-out (if any) the Fudders managed to achieve?

Damn, a lot has been going on with the DO Project since I have been offline! It's great to see a faucet up and running - reminds me of early BTC. I'm not entirely sold on the color scheme of the page - perhaps one of the great desktop wallpapers created by DO supporters could be used here as the background image?

I must admit I did use the faucet and received my mOnion quite quickly!

Thanks for sharing your take on the situation fr4nk. I've been afk for the best part of the week and am just now catching up on all the recent fuss. I'm cautiously optimistic about the project, as I have always been.

Hey there Iris - be sure to update your DeepOnion signature as your bitcointalk membership level increases to ensure you receive the appropriate airdrop. Can't have you missing out on your fair share of onions!

I'm sorry to hear that although I am not entirely surprised. With time, and with some luck perhaps, circumstances should change.

It's not just China of course that is wary of technologies such as TOR (and blockchains for that matter). My understanding is that most Western countries, for example, are less than comfortable with the notion that some or perhaps many of their honest citizens may prefer to maintain relative anonymity on the internet - given a transparent choice of course.

It wouldn't surprise me to find that the government of the country I live in would perceive citizen participation in the DeepOnion project somewhat concerning, but I am currently allowed that prerogative - and remain thankful for the same.

I've had a quick look on the deeponion.org forums regarding solutions to the synch problem.
Have you tried adding nodes (via creating a .conf file) for the wallet?
There's an easy to follow tutorial here:
https://deeponion.org/community/threads/deeponion-tor-wallet-creating-conf-file.63/

Not at the moment; mine seems fine. What's going on with yours? (i.e. Just restarted, just unlocked, just installed etc). It might be worth having a look in the Community Forum at deeponion.org for info - seems a few folks have had similar issues and managed to sort them.

It's reassuring to see ongoing development of the project - every increment of progress adds momentum and value to the project overall, particularly during its early stages.

The page and the interface look clean. What protection of user details are in place?

That rule only applies to coins received during the airdrop, and not self-mined coins, correct crypto-rainbow?

I'd ask in Slack tbh - if you don't receive the solution there I'd open a separate thread in the Mining sub-forum on the Community board at deeponion.org.