In the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese thread, there are useless resources, e.g.: (a) some guy wrote an app back in 2004, and it hasn't been maintained since, or (b) a predatory company copies some other Chinese-learning app to make quick money. We need some way to evict this noise: we can't let it grow to infinity.
It's unrealistic to expect users to spend much effort documenting changes (after all, we're talking about low-quality resources); we all have more important things to do with our time. Thus I propose a simple...
...Eviction policy
Users delete potentially useless resources from the page at will: we use our judgement. (One or two at a time, please.)
We document it by editing this post below; only the date, name, and URL are needed.
If there's disagreement, we post an answer to this question. Answers should include some evidence of usefulness, e.g. a link to web users saying they use this particular resource. (I'm expecting little disagreement in most cases.) We discuss, erring on the side of re-adding it if multiple users consider it useful.
I intend to use this in the upcoming days to indicate how it might work (and test it out).
Evicted resources
- 18 Sep 2020 HSK Locker
- 18 Sep 2020 Beginner Chinese
- 13 Sep 2020 Chinese Tutor Flashcards
- 13 Sep 2020 LearnChineseEZ
Recent related posts: What's the future for the "Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese" page? and Are requests for resources on-topic?
