Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1655·
    1 year ago

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

    • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      253·
      1 year ago

      I read somewhere about someone who took a zip file, copied it and zipped it with the copy over and over again until the file size ballooned to petabytes. I would consider that sort of pointless use of storage to be abuse.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2057·
      1 year ago

      Sure you can, they did it here. All you can eat buffet doesn’t mean I should take all the crab 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

        • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          330·
          1 year ago

          Calling unlimited shouldn’t mean that people upload things that are not reasonable. The issue here isn’t calling it unlimited because a reasonable person gets that its a gimmick that will have limits. Pushing it to that limit is the problem.

          I feel anyone should assume there are limits because there is nothing in this universe that is unlimited.

          I can reason what it actually means and that there is a point I would be abusing the system.

          The amount of cool things I have lost out on because another person abused a system might be close to unlimited. It gets tiring after a while. Anyone remember steam sales before they were forced to offer refunds and people started to abuse that.

          Id rather not have guard rails everywhere in life to stop me from being abusive. But abusive people exist and force the rest of us to live with the consequences of their actions

          • nous@programming.devEnglish
            161·
            1 year ago

            What is not reasonable then? Everyone would have their own ideas of what is reasonable. Why advertise anything as unlimited when it is not? Having a limit in their advert let’s people know what they can use rather then being told randomly at some point that they have had too much.

            Advertisements should not lie about the product. They do it to get more sales, and then complain when it gets abused. You cannot have it both ways.