It goes without saying that we mean VALID Participants. A participation which does not follow the requirements/rules is not a participation anyway.... So with what they did they accepted that they had more than 1000 participants but they paid only 565 of them. No sense at all.......
I agree with you. They should use common sense but they did not specify it in the airdrop rules if I am not wrong so you can not say that he is lying. It is just playing with words as you said before. It seems there is no chance to admit that ITNS did something wrong.
Yes and for this reason we note all the facts as they are in order for all the community to get informed and do not waste their time in a future airdrop.