Jesse Pollak π΅
@jessepollak
negativity towards "airdrop farmers" is misplaced and biased. hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people all over the world have decided that doing microwork for protocols is their best path to economic prosperity. that is incredible and should be celebrated. it's on us to enable them to contribute positively.
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Joe Petrich πͺ
@jpetrich
I certainly disagree. It's a sign of incentive misalignment if this "micro work" which provides no positive value is a path to economic prosperity for anyone. I think it's similar to the SEO-ification of the web. Search engines = net positive, SEO=net negative. Tokenomics=net positive. Airdrop farming=net negative
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Patrician
@yrael
You're essentially giving remote work to debug testers. They're quite capable of valuing their own time against the local currency and expected value
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Joe Petrich πͺ
@jpetrich
What are they testing by posting wowow and nice?
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@yrael
Ability to handle capacity? Catching edge cases? Viability of the platform with regards to engagement? Idk a lot of people begin their investigation into whether to invest in a project by seeing whether the telegram is active, engagement is a market, volume stabilises value in other markets,rejecting null hypothesis=D
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