tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
My 2c on Airdrop-Selling drama: + I worked with Merkle on an Airdrop. They didn't impose their criteria on us, they helped us to set *our* critieria. + Therefore, I think many people are mistakingly taking Dan's comment as a threat "from Dan" when, in fact, it is his observation of what Airdrop Teams will decide for their self-interest. + And I'd say Dan's point is directionally correct – giving airdrops that seem likely to be insta-sold is less appealing to Teams than the opposite. + However, selling does *not* have to overwhelm all other criteria. Eg, if someone is a power-user of many apps and tokens like @tricil.eth, this may be more important to a Team than whether he sold a drop or not. tldr: Dan's point clearly has merit, but Airdrop Criteria is a unique decision made by each Team (not by Merkle!)
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tricil
@tricil.eth
Fair and based take. One bit of clarification here that I don’t expect these from Merkle I’m just worried about the practice becoming an unfair default. Nuance in that.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Definitely. My guess is that most teams will want to get pretty "hands on" when essentially giving away thousands of dollars, and that @linda was super active about helping us choose intelligently (imo Merkle is super aligned on wanting us to have a great experience giving tokens away, and converting drop to usage)
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tricil
@tricil.eth
Ultimately you’re right. What’s better with a $3500 budget? 10,000 users at $0.35 or 1,000 users at $3.50 Ultimately, this leads back to the “thousand true fans” concept and the targeting is designed to help that.
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