[kstrauser]

"How do I do this thing in Django 6?"

Closed: duplicate of question 1234, "How do I do some vaguely related thing in Django 1.3?", August 2011

The mods there sucked all the joy out of interacting with the site. If you run a site with moderators, let this be a reminder to keep them reined in lest they Stack Overflow it.

[rich_sasha]

Now:

"How do I do this thing in Django 6?"

"This is an excellent question, and shows a real attention to detail! Let me walk you through it in detail, with a particular focus on Django version and the evolution of the semantics there.

[...]

Bottom line: it's exactly the same as in Django 1.3 back in August 2011. But by anchoring to a specific version, you make the question unambiguous and much more insightful.m"

[hbn]

You can just... ask it not to do that

[Gud]

No it isn’t.

[Waterluvian]

Poetic how they were so ridiculous about meticulously curating a database of answers where the ultimate consumer would be LLMs that really don’t care about duplicates.

[sockaddr]

In fact, duplicates with different approaches over time and different ways of being asked is REALLY good for LLMs

[firesteelrain]

And they made it easy by linking duplicates together

[belorn]

Stack Overflow had two main value propositions for me. Either questions about standard way/community agreed way to accomplish something which has multiple aproaches, like "what is the most common way to take out the first element or null from a list".

I suspect moderators was very careful of allowing such questions to multiply on the site.

The other value I found was in fringe questions, like how do you access the model object of the value of a django form field from the template environment. If there even is an answer, the answer will hopefully point me to some non-documented way to accomplish what I want, or give hints to what kind of ugly hack I need to create. Those question don't seem to have much moderations applied to them at all.

[torben-friis]

What I hated was posting a question and then receiving updates because a rando decided to change my wording "for clarity".

It is infuriating that there are blocks of text in there signed by me that contain whatever someone else hoped I had written, instead of what I did write.

[kstrauser]

OMG, so much. I was quite ruthless about rolling back those vandalisms. If I’d have meant X, I’d have said X in the first place. I didn’t, so I didn’t.