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[–] KillBill 2 points (+2|-0)

The others have said similar things though. Not trying to be a downer but it seems like there is something else that causes these people to all stop.

For example, I imagine it wouldn't be hard for a big competitor to burn through that 5 terabytes if they wanted to cause you grief. They have millions of dollars to burn to gain more.

[–] x0x7 [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

The griefing aspect isn't something I've thought of. I would definitely monetize at that point and ask that he pay his $5. At that point I'm break even.

[–] KillBill 1 points (+1|-0)

It's not even Imgur I would suspect of something like that really. There's a lot of money invested into deplatforming certain demographics right now and you might even get people with the wrong mindset or lacking reason deciding what is targeted and what isn't.

[–] x0x7 [OP] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

Hmm, I guess I don't have a mind for evil so these ideas escape me but you are absolutely right. I don't even think about ways to tear down lefty shit besides competing.

Still if someone did dump 5 terrabytes on me I would count it as a successful social experiment. Yeah that might present a problem but it's not like it will have ruined my day.

So one idea I had to move this jsos project over to data is a abuse maximization concept of business I wanted to toy with. Almost all tech companies go though a million loops to stave off abuse. Once the initial product is made they spend the rest of their product life avoiding abuse.

I started thinking about a buffet. If someone went into your home and just started eating your food you would call it abuse. But if you note who is eating the food and have them pay that's a business.

So the idea is to design it to get as much abuse as possible and simply measure it. Then you only charge people if they pose a significant cost. The problem is what is a significant cost for me (with respect to storage). Seeing as I see no additional costs until the 5TB mark then that point of significant cost would be about the 5TB mark, and by significant cost I mean $5, because they exhausted about $5 in monthly infrastructure that could have been used to serve someone else. So you charge them $5. And if two people would like to do that at the same time they will have to settle for only 2.5TB each and both pay $5. And if three then so on. Until there is an equilibrium. But until someone imposes a marginal cost on me I have no reason to charge or limit anyone, and I legitimately welcome the abuse.