I agree that an airdrop that accepts newbie needs to be disregarded and re-evaluated. As it's clear that countless users will create other accounts to take over threads with spam.
This one didn't even require a bitcointalk account. Just an email and a Ethereum address. I think the dev should stop the air drop and do a do over requiring Bitcoin talk account with some more requirements. Because over 8,000 accounts just doesn't sound legit.
A count of 8,000 is nothing. Wcex has around 600,000 and counting according to webpage statistics.
Don't say it's nothing.
Take the Howl airdrop. By the time the air drop was being distributed, it had like 40 pages, and the final number was around 628 participants.
This is bad. because instead of you getting 20,000 ebtc or more, you're only getting 2,457, while another person is probably getting over 17,000 that would have belong to you.