Timeline for What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | Brock Adams | IMPORTANT: I'm currently the main close-vote reviewer here, and one of my policies is to try to give the benefit of the doubt. Accordingly, I won't close, using the placeholder reason, unless the post is at least 14 days old. So, please don't flag brand-new questions for closure for this reason. Hit me up in chat, or open a new [meta] question here, if you wish to discuss this. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:15 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | vogella | The problematic part of the tutorial (register you app with Stackoverflow) should not be available anymore in vogella.com/tutorials/Retrofit/article.html Let me know if you see more issues. Again sorry for the inconvenience caused. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:02 | comment | added | Shog9 | Thanks for responding, @vogella! It's awesome that your tutorial has managed to generate so much interest in this; we just want to make sure folks have a good time here. As the old nature trail guidance goes, "take only pictures, leave only footprints" - it's important that folks remember to pick up after themselves when they're done learning. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:01 | vote | accept | Glorfindel♦ | ||
| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:00 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:00 | answer | added | Shog9 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 18:58 | comment | added | vogella | I'm one of the writer of vogella.com/tutorials/Retrofit/article.html. Until a few minutes ago, I was not aware that the tutorial creates pain, sorry for this. I will now remove the part of the tutorial that give instructions for registering the app. I update this thread once this is online. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 18:14 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Tim Stone♦ | Heh, I just brought this up internally too! I definitely agree that we need consensus on what to do here. They are crappy posts but they wouldn't have been created if not for the API restrictions (and tutorial), so it's tricky | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 8:36 | comment | added | Brock Adams | "A special API key for tutorial apps" would get abused by bad guys eventually -- unless we could get the devs to code special restrictions for it. | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 8:27 | history | edited | Brock Adams |
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| Jul 5, 2017 at 8:11 | history | asked | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |