Airdrop farmers have started spamming comments on GitHub repositories for projects that might launch token airdrops in the future, and it’s frustrating developers.

“Please don’t submit a GitHub issue just for farming purposes,” said a researcher at Scroll known as Pseudo. “The scroll core team is stretched thin enough as it is, please don’t make our lives harder.”

Airdrop farming is nothing new. Since some big projects suddenly gave governance tokens to their early users in 2020, people have been trying to game the system by performing actions that they think will make them eligible for future airdrops by other projects. However, typically, this was focused on on-chain activity, such as making transactions on a blockchain network.

However, recent airdrops, such as Celestia and …