Bounty hunting seems dead in Bitcointalk. Are there members still making money via airdrops?
It's true, as you said, bounty hunters on bitcointalk have started to disappear one by one, many of the hunters no longer rely on bounties as a place to find prizes, including airdrops which often appear to be scams, airdrops are no longer worth it to get rewards. We can still see several projects that has quality outside other than participating in the airdrop.
Many developers are now using the automation platform. It makes it much easier to manage their campaigns. This is why we rarely see bounties launched on Bitcointalk. The golden days of bounty in BTT has passed. It's time for us moving forward and accept the truth that if we must be also following the trend. Though a few would be worthy to participate, most bounties in BTT don't pay if the reward isn't escrowed. It's very rare to find a legit bounty on BTT. It drives people to use automation platform to participated in the bounty campaign.