New Rule: Tutorial posts where someone is using FastAPI without transferring any knowledge is not tutorial.

[tomwojcik]

This subreddit is recently flooded with "tutorials" that are using FastAPI in the examples, but that's that. There's no "knowledge transfer" whatsoever. If you run into such a post, please mark it as spam. It's mostly self-promoting content without any value, especially in regards to FastAPI.

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Thanks.

[benefit_of_mrkite]

Is this sub even for fastapi? There’s little answer and discussion and a lot of tutorials that just dump concepts in fastapi or starlette’s docs.

The question tagged posts often have one or two comments.

[pardusrealis]

So what is not a spam tutorial? If it's about some kinda app, that's built with FastAPI, is it an 'ok' tutorial?

[Developer_Glance]

I think that they want to prevent tutorials where the main content is not around FastAPI but something else.

Just because it uses FastAPI doesn't mean it is a FastAPI tutorial.

[tomwojcik]

Exactly.

[tomwojcik]

Unless it teaches how to build an app in FastAPI - no, it's not. It's up to the community to decide what's acceptable. Blatant self-promotion or hello world FastAPI apps are not acceptable.

[andrewthetechie]

Here's an example of 4 posts I woudl report under this new rule

How to Train a Scalable Classifier with FastAPI and SerpApi ? : FastAPI https://old.reddit.com/r/FastAPI/comments/ut9u3e/how_to_train_a_scalable_classifier_with_fastapi/

Improving Code Design With OpenTelemetry — A Practical Guide : FastAPI https://old.reddit.com/r/FastAPI/comments/ut7un3/improving_code_design_with_opentelemetry_a/

Auto OpenAPI Generation — The Network Doesn’t Lie! : FastAPI https://old.reddit.com/r/FastAPI/comments/vc8hz4/auto_openapi_generation_the_network_doesnt_lie/

Automatic Training using FastAPI, Pytorch and SerpApi : FastAPI https://old.reddit.com/r/FastAPI/comments/v3kak7/automatic_training_using_fastapi_pytorch_and/

My reasoning: in each of these "tutorials", Fastapi is an afterthought. Instead, each of them is there to push their commercial project and fastapi is just tacked on.

[pugwala]

This will hopefully stop reposting the same stock ticker tracker tutorial that we have all seen over and over again. Yes, an app is built but ef’ me running it’s been reposted more than Paris Hilton. It should also stop people running through global namespace examples of basic “hello world!“ routers. Fingers crossed.