Is it just me or has the word 'airdrops' lost its meaning

[DaFingIs]

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.

[cryptonero]

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.

[alexford]

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.

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.

[Lonsdayl]

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.

[xPASTELx]

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

[jackolinyoko]

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.

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.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

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.

[justin86]

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.

[Denlv]

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.

[earthcoin]

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.

[maursader]

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.

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...

[hous26]

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.

[dunfida]

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.

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.

[jorenpo]

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.

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.

[cryptomema]

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.

Did you mean like this one?

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

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.

[Lerikaweb]

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.

[SearchingforS]

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.

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.

[stretcharmstrong]

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.

[cryptospear]

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.

[Dart18]

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.

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.

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.