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

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    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

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        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

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          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.

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            Its gone now right. They had unlimited because these people were able to upload their crap. Now its gone because of these people. So it was unlimited up until these users forced them to reconsider.

            We all should self regulate. Like at the buffet, there are good reasons why I shouldn’t take an entire tray to the table. Its like how some people leave garbage in the theatre because its giving the cleaners jobs. Just because there’s a way for me to justify an abuse doesn’t change that its an abuse of a service being offered. The more we lean on the side of people who abuse systems the worse off we all are

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              11 months ago

              how is good is the dropbox boot for you to keeping licking it?

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      Unlimited is unlimited. It’s what was advertised. I am sorry Dropbox failed to look up the word before using it in marketing. The customers are using it as the advertising said it could be. Not the fault of the customer for using to product as intended.

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          Then you know full well that just because they shouldn’t take all the crab legs doesn’t mean they don’t/won’t take them all. If I go for crab legs and none are available, I’ll blame Mandarin and give them a crappy review. People will be people. Can’t blame them.

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            You can blame them. That’s the point. Its the “customer is always right” culture thats the problem. Anyone should blame the individual who takes all the condiment’s at the fast food restaurant causing the store to start charging. Just like we can blame the people who forced the company to take this service away from us.

            Now we all need to pay more for less because these people.

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              The sad thing is that the full quote is “The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE”.