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You meant “reasonable,” but you did not apply reason. Situations such as this can be handled with a quota set at something like 150% of median use, but then extended upon a justified request. It can work in a lab where there’s a human touch, but it fails at million-user scale where even that level of human support is too expensive.


> but it fails at million-user scale where even that level of human support is too expensive.

In general this is a myth promoted by platforms with millions of users. The vast majority of such large platforms could easily afford that level of human support, they just actively choose mot to give it. Blackblaxe - if they even have millions of users - belongs to the minority of such companies.




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