That's a funny idea. "Hiring" people to check airdrop applicants.
The best way imo is to connect multiple accounts so that you can't apply with your 389 BCT alt accounts. Telegram needs a phone number, for example. Most people have only one number and one Telegram account so that would reduce the abuse.
a telephone package cost $2-3
the only way to prevent abuse is the rank
or maybe they should require a retinal scan
No system is perfect. Restricting the air drop to high rank members is as good as any other system.
The old DeepOnion system of checking the quality of every post of every participant going back to the beginning of their account was good, but required a lot of man power, and will only really catch the obvious sock puppet accounts. The Telegram idea is flawed, because it's easy to get a throwaway number.
No system is perfect, but the Sr. Member and up seems like the best so far because it would just be too difficult to rank up multiple accounts. Sounds like torture.
So far the best system that I've seen to eliminate sock puppets is the current Deep Onion system in which the air drop amount is based on the percentage of the coin one has, thus having multiple accounts just means extra work for actually less coins (too long to explain why it's less). But at this point such a system would benefit the Github sock puppets, unless they already sold their Sirius coins.
So I guess higher rank accounts is still the best option for Sirius. The higher the rank the better. Hero Member and up would probably almost eliminate sock puppets, but that's easy for me to say since I'm a Hero Member.