Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

https://lemmy.world/post/4124580

You can’t abuse something that has no limit. Stop calling things unlimited and then blaming users when they are not.

Sure you can, they did it here. All you can eat buffet doesn’t mean I should take all the crsb legs every time they bring out a new tray.

You either get it or you don’t. But these people who abuse and exploit things are why we will never have nice things

Sounds like your buffet should plan for more crab legs to be made each time

Why, you know there isn’t mythical endless and free source of crab legs right?

As a thinking person, nobody should reasonably thing there is. “Endless” is advertising. You’re suppose to still respect its a business and that other people will want some.

Why, you know there isn’t mythical endless and free source of crab legs right?

If there’s not then they have no business selling an unlimited supply of it.

Nobody should reasonably think there is. “Endless” is advertising.

Where I’m from services should be as advertised, legally so.

It’s was unlimited. People uploaded whatever they wanted. The business had to reassess because these gluttonous people took it too far and so the service ended.
No, if it was unlimited, I should be able to pipe /dev/urandom to it for fun if that’s what I choose to do. What’s this about “gluttony”? They sold the service as that.

You can do it doesn’t mean you should which is my point. I can leave trash in a theater because they offer a service where workers clean it up. Doesn’t mean I should even though it’d advertised as part of the theater experience.

I’d go so far to say that we’re dealing with a culture of people who are in capable of self regulating and that is why so many things are worse for people today. Just because its offered as a service shouldn’t mean I push its limits regardless of the gimmick used to advertise it.

Why are you arguing on behalf of a company? Why use the word unlimited if it is not unlimited?

I’m not. Do you have access to this service anymore?

No one does because of a handful of abusive people who took it too far. This isnt the only case of this either. I’m arguing because I’ve lost many good services because of people that cant self regulate themselves

Why would you need to regulate the usage of an unlimited service? Aren’t you paying for the luxury of not having to regulate yourself to a fixed limit?
Why would you need to regulate anything. Why can’t I leave my shopping cart where ever I like. Why shouldn’t I leave all the trash in my seat. Why shouldn’t I throw cigarette butts out my window. There’s lots of advertised services that are limitless that doesn’t make it right to abuse it

None of the things you mentioned were a service you paid for, that’s called a false equivalency.

I would say go ahead if you were paying for a shopping cart collector, personal trash collector, and a cigarette butt collector. Why would you hire them if you did not intend to use their services?

The business made a deal, people took them up on their offer. It was a voluntary action on each side. If there was no intention or ability follow through on what they were offering, they should not have done so in the first place. Just make the cap 30tb or whatever. This eliminates the potential for abuse and does not trick consumers into thinking they will receive the service they paid for.

You’ve clearly got no critical thinking skills. Don’t be upset that people expect to be able to use a service they pay for, from a company that chose to offer that service.