Airdrops Confusion

[Jeger.Kiting]

Actually with an Airdrop it doesn't mean we will get income easily, actually if you think that Airdrop is just a diversion for the project to find many communities in it, and coupled with a prize campaign to further improve the project community, actually Airdrop is not like before. where the number of airdrops that actually make money, in contrast to airdrops at this point have no value at all, because over time with the existence of a prize campaign making airdrops forgotten by many people, especially old players, because there is no new concept provided by the project to hold an Airdrop, if there is a new concept there will likely be more and more people interest in the Airdrop ...

[Samayuki]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

Either Airdrops or bounties you still have to do something, join social media channels or other, nothing is for free, Airdrops aren't entirely free even if that's what you keep hearing, do not be fooled, you have to give something to get something back, new projects are getting exposure in exchange for free tokens 

[didzi]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

i think thats no a big issue my friend, if we have to fill out the form and follow some social media accounts except KYC
at least we help the project grow and we get rewards for doing that without giving money to the project wich mean its still free

[Byakuga]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

i think thats no a big issue my friend, if we have to fill out the form and follow some social media accounts except KYC
at least we help the project grow and we get rewards for doing that without giving money to the project wich mean its still free

Except KYC? Few Airdrop campaigns still demand for KYC to get paid or qualified for the Airdrop, I think I understand what OP is trying to say, Airdrop sounds like free giveaway but that's not it, in the end you have to fill form, do some retweeting and follow channels too

[proTECH77]

Many airdrop campaign it hard to end well with the hunter without no complain about the fees charged. Some hunter saw that the token program for the campaign is not go to be okay with the people that apply for the campaign.
Bounty campaign  that carry free altcoin bonus sometimes is look as if the airdrop is free during the campaign until you do some research concerning the token that is trending in the market. I think every bounty campaign that carry so much hunter find it difficult  to earn more in the campaign.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Something to just sell your identity because most "airdrops" do KYC verification. It's still a bounty campaign in the end, but with lesser task to do and you aren't entirely bind to do something every week, well I guess checking out the announcement of team when the airdrop goes live. Aside from it, it's still a token to be given away for free and that free made me trust airdrops less. Nobody would give random people free money even if that was for marketing purposes.

[jacafbiz]

I agree with the OP the term airdrop has been greatly abuse, and all these bounty manager should stop using the terms to deceive people from joining their bounty. A good example of what Airdrop is, is the Uniswap airdrops for everyone that has used their platform before, not string attached just follow basic steps and you have your tokens, not that you would be require to join telegram, make tweets and retweets and some of these other funny task.

[Dondeon]

I understand OP very well, i want to say airdrop was not like what we have now then, people have now mistaken bounty for airdrop, airdrop was supposed to be a form of free tokens distributed to people's wallet without any engagement but what we have now is totally different, you have to spend 1 hour filling some google form and carrying out some task on the social media to be eligible for a reward.

[Becky666]

  that shouldn't be a confusion because the two are just same IMO. They all accept information from participants in various degrees and with different mode of operation. Sincerely speaking, this will continue as nothing can be done to Savage this happenings around the system. What I would advise on this two is: don't give out your information to expect good coins or tokens from these projects because thousands of them are just spam tokens use by hackers.

[albon]

You can finish participating in Airdrop within a few minutes by doing some simple tasks such as liking their Facebook page, retweeting a tweet ... etc, and I do not advise you to spend your time on this nonsense because it is difficult to find honest airdrop, so you should participate in the bounty campaigns are better for you, after well reviewed.

[ZEIIMAN]

For me personally - if it requires a minimum of effort-airdrop. If airdrop is "encouraging", then all you need to do is one repost or registration on some resource. If the airdrop is "automatic", then you do not have to do anything at all — the essence of the" automatic " airdrop is that some tokens are awarded for the fact that you have a certain amount of other tokens. And even more so if this is an "encouraging" airdrop, and the project has its own blockchain, and it is not yet very popular in society, you will 100% have to fill out something, or subscribe to social networks.
But you need to perform some additional actions, monitor something, and periodically write that this is a bounty campaign.

[fadhilz123]

Actually, no one will give you a free coin without doing nothing, even in airdrop, To get coin/money people must do something and it applies to all also in an airdrop, should be beneficial to 2 parties. So in airdrop, you get your coin, and developers of the project get the followers
And airdrop is an easy task, right??

[Gibreil]

I also wonder why they tend to have investment wherein fact, it should be free to the community. If there is an investment to the airdrops, we should not join to it. They promised to give a certain amount before when you invest? It seems like you invest and not do the airdrops. Most of airdrops right now are not good. They just giving cents to the public. Unlike before, we can get 5-20 usd or even more for just a piece of airdrop.

[gabbie2010]

If the task required for earning an airdrop is just filling a form or doing some little bounty job that wouldn't take much of my time then I don't I have any problem with it, however if it involve filling of KYC that is no-area for me I can never summit my identity in the name of doing such a task that might be worthless at the end of the day.

[lousie9]

As far as I know about airdrops, earning free coins by filling out a form then following project rules is like sharing their project via social media channels. on this forum There are no free coins, every bounty campaign requires effort. Even if they are called Airdrops, it doesn't mean free coins, because there will never be someone who will send coins to your wallet for free.

[Jendral Istimewa]

I think there is something wrong with the use of the words and the airdrop rules. Airdrop is sharing something without a task but the reality is not here, airdrop also has to do something. Like likes, comments, subscribe to their social media.

[tracyhayley]

This thought just comes to my mind especially these days, with a lot of altcoins doing airdrops or giving away different altcoins.

But I got some confusion here when the "airdrop" term used.

Because for what I believe the meaning of "airdrop" is a way of giving a free coin/s to some wallet addresses without seeking any investment or doing nothing.

Are those spreading all over around especially in this forum known to be an "airdrop" is considered an airdrop or bounty campaign since some of those are requiring people to fill up some of the forms or need to sign up or follow some social media accounts, etc?
Since you did some task or work to get those coins.

yes, i have some thought like you in the past. but now i know that airdrop need a little effort. they usually ask you to follow / retweet their social media or follow their telegram, but you just do it once. not like bounties that require you to do it 3 times every week. just like a video games, when there is an "airdrops", you need a little effort, you must run to chase it and fight with other player to get it.

[raidarksword]

Men, i missed those airdrops that really gave free tokens to participants without doing so much work or tasks successfully just to get qualified. Projects now are just stubborn and very clever that wanted so much tasks like doing more likely bounty tasks and i am okay with like, follow and retweet stuff but to the extent beyond that is not airdrop anymore. Asking fees to claim airdrop tokens are just not good at all, more likely it's all "fee-drop" if a project does that then better to think twice and it will only give you regret.

[Twinkledoe]

Airdrop nowadays have changed their requirements. But before, like in 2017, most airdrops will just ask your eth address or coin address to receive their coins without doing anything. But now, most of them will require you to tweet or like their social media channels to be eligible for airdrop. And the problem these days, is that when you finally receive those supposedly free coins, they are not worth sending to the exchange as you may incur higher tx fee than its actual value. So basically, you just wasted effort.

Men, i missed those airdrops that really gave free tokens to participants without doing so much work or tasks successfully just to get qualified. Projects now are just stubborn and very clever that wanted so much tasks like doing more likely bounty tasks and i am okay with like, follow and retweet stuff but to the extent beyond that is not airdrop anymore. And asking fees to claim airdrop tokens are just not good at all, more likely it's all "fee-drop".

And sometimes, some projects will ask for gas fees from their participants in order to get their share. 

[xiboothrezi]

I agree with the OP the term airdrop has been greatly abuse, and all these bounty manager should stop using the terms to deceive people from joining their bounty. A good example of what Airdrop is, is the Uniswap airdrops for everyone that has used their platform before, not string attached just follow basic steps and you have your tokens, not that you would be require to join telegram, make tweets and retweets and some of these other funny task.

And it is no longer free as some current airdrops ask you to send some funds for gas. previously it was legit and worth what was obtained, but lately it has become a means of committing fraud and then leaving. It is better if we are not careless, especially those who ask for large enough funds, immediately leave it. I miss airdrops in 2017 that only really asked for the ETH address by filling out the form, that's all, no other tasks. Lol.