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?
Your friend is right; consider any airdrop scam until they prove you wrong. Don't pay any money to get ranked among the top people to be eligible for Airdrop because it is supposed to be free, unless if you wish to do so if you like the project after your research and you find it worthy of investing in the project.
The recent trend of Airdrop is on telegram; the telegram mini games are now the latest trend of airdrop which some of the projects have paid their participants some amount of money; this trend is going viral because I don't think any form of airdrop apart from telegram based games will get attention; but it is also coming to an end because the number of scam related project been lunched is becoming alarming.