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Free tiers are meant to be abused, because they should not be provided for free, and this is the market reacting to remove it.

• akshayKMR 2y ago
  Imagine a restaurant offering free samples or complimentary dishes to their customers. It helps in product discovery, and indirectly in adoption of other products that they pay for. Then a person comes in starts gobbling every sample, because they believe "free tiers are meant to be abused".
  • hk__2 2y ago
    > Then a person comes in starts gobbling every sample, because they believe "free tiers are meant to be abused". That’s what happens in practice, even if they don’t believe this.
    • saagarjha 2y ago
      Then you kick them out. It's not very hard.
      • hk__2 2y ago
        Of course, because having someone eating them all is the natural process; you need to kick the people out to prevent it.
    • that_guy_iain 2y ago
      In practice, they have someone giving out the free samples. Also, social shame generally applies and people conform to social norms.
• Karellen 2y ago
  People like you are the reason we can't have nice things.