So a question for Pinboard users especially. How big should I let an archiving account (or a regular account, for that matter) get before I start to cut people off? I'm talking in terms of bookmarks and terabytes stored. What's a generous allowance for both in your eyes?
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For context, this stuff follows a power law like everything else online (so there is no meaningful 'average user'), and I've only had to shut accounts a couple of dozen times over the life of the site, for doing things like firehosing half a million bookmarks into an account.
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Replying to @Pinboard
You could pick an arbitrary percentile of the distribution and cut it off after that? Asking on here may skew towards power users
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That's one answer I've considered, doing stuff that affects no more than the top 20 or so users. I want power users to be happy on the site too!
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Maybe overkill + tech debt, but is there other information besides file size you can leverage to separate legitimate usage from abuse. for example, steady accumulation vs automated mass upload.
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I have a pretty wide definition of "legitimate use" since I don't consider it my business to tell people how to use the site. As long as it doesn't affect others or break laws, I'm happy to have them.
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