Now from a different angle aside from an airdrop project been regarded to as scammers when they request people to pay some TON and didn't airdropped. What about a scenario where a project after requesting for such payment from participants actually airdropped but to just about 15% of their participants out of a 100% that made that TON payment task. Can that still be regarded as some form of scam? since the notion has been that most of these airdrops that request some fee to be paid don't usually fulfill their promise.
Some of the team behind this tap to earn mini game projects on telegram habe good idea for running their project and everything n paper but they don't have the fund to do much. I can tell you for free that many crypto projects that are currently been played on telegram doesn't have any venture investors not to talk of public offers but the will not admit they are not getting called from anyone and instead, they try to use their users, it was Tapcoin that started this madness.
I don't know for other people that have 0.5 Ton to give but if it's not for differentiating between real users and bot accounts like Blum do participate on Telegram Open network competition, I wouldn't allow a small drop of my Ton get to them. What I know about airdrop is they are been giving to users for compensating them for helping project make awareness and the team use it also to make awareness of about them so the project can become popular.