Quote from: Abiky on December 03, 2021, 01:50:56 PM

Airdrops are a great way to attract people into newly-fond crypto projects. They're basically "free money" for not doing anything in return. Some projects have been widely successful after an airdrop, while others have gone all the way down the drain. There's been a upsurge of airdrop hunters looking to "milk rewards" from the system, effectively dumping all of their coins/tokens on the market for profit. While most projects have been quite flexible in the eligibility for an airdrop, one project decided to take the stand by adopting measures to prevent abuse. Parachain Swap's airdrop has been quite controversial as it only rewarded a small portion of its users. The vast majority of the people weren't rewarded (especially airdrop hunters), resulting in a decline of the token's price.

Do you think it's a good idea to penalize airdrop hunters? Will this do more harm or good to the adoption of crypto/Blockchain tech? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

actually airdrops do not really disturb the ecosystem of a coin. the problem here is that sometimes airdrop hunters cheat, they try to take as much profit as possible from airdrops. this is what gets a project into trouble, when it comes to dealing with such people.

is it worth punishing them? yeah it's really worth it. but the question is how?, finding the perpetrators of fraud is very difficult without a report. punish all airdops participants? it's not a solution, worse it will cause new problems like you said. the level of trust decreases and consequently the token price will fall.