Just participated the airdrop campaign! Yes, an Airdrop is a must for a ico! But at the end I saw a link to the bounty campaign... Wondering why aren't they using another separated bitcointalk bounty thread for the bounty campaign!
An airdrop is helpful but it is not necessarily a must for ICOs, it helps create awareness but does not necessarily brings in investors. I think the bounty is a better option though. Just my personal opinion
You're right, i never liked the airdrop thing nor bounties but i think the later is much more better because it has some sort of task attached to it that will help spread the word about the brand and not just the former that's like a freebie with nothing attached and a perfect guarantee for dumpers to do what they know best and mess up the project
its good to have bounty or airdrop as long as the project still at the early phase of the project because in my experienced, coin is being dump buy most of the bounty hunters but in the good side those who are willing to invest more coins of the coin that is being dump buy others is a good sign to have an active market supply in the market, they also have the rights to sell their coin since they put some effort to get those coins participated from bounties and airdrop, if you know that the project is worth to hold it in the future so there is no need to worried about the market situation i guess.