In recent months, I saw a lot of new airdrops, mostly on Telegram platform. A lot of them are harmless "tap to mine" games which can be trusted (in my personal opinion). Some of them were basically giving away tokens based on your accounts age (like Dogs).
I know when these airdrops are around, they make a hype. One of my friends sent me 15 invite links the other day (and honestly, I still haven't clicked on the links) and most of them are basically these mini games. But I also saw some airdrops asking people to pay them little amounts of TON or Tron, in order to put them in a better place in a leaderboard. It seems somehow suspicious. I just want to know what is the measure of a good airdrop? One of my bitcoiner friends once told me "consider every airdrop a scam until they're not". But I strongly believe that there must be some good measures for this issue as well.
What do you think?
I cannot fathom how much these airdrop projects are earning based on their userbase despite that they're not yet in the market.
Those that you have mentioned that people pay with the games or airdrops just for them to have some better standing and points system through the game.
I agree with CT that it should be free, an airdrop is an airdrop which should be free. I think it all started with the idea of test nets that projects require users to pay for the fees and to transact with their network. And for these TON projects, they're doing it with the potential airdrop tap mining.
It's annoying to be honest, you open one app and then you complete the task and then you'll be redirected to another project and so on.