Talk:34 Zambezi Questionnaires/@comment-5334617-20141215050913/@comment-9531161-20141216045211

I think that as long as the program is in the right place, isn't a copy of another program, and has a proper download, it should be fine. As for "resources" (which this should technically be categorized under), the question of usefulness is much more valid. If someone creates a silly program that nobody's interested in, the page will just get buried under all the other popular pages and there's not too much of a problem. Maybe someone might come along and enjoy the program, but since most don't, it won't be way up at the top of the list getting in the way of programs that are generally considered "more enjoyable". I don't think it's right to force our opinion on the usefulness of created programs on the content submitters; we're not charging for these programs, we're merely a place to display information. Remember, not even Google Play removes "useless" applications; these apps just get buried under the popular ones.

However, I would agree that resources (tutorials in particular) do need some form of quality control in place, as these are things which actually need to be useful. Downloading programs is usually done for entertainment, but looking for resources to help you is usually done out of a desire to learn, and having a bunch of crap in the way isn't conducive to learning. I do not agree that just the admins should decide whether or not a page is "useful", but perhaps they should have the final say. If our community were larger, I'd say we could put a forced poll on each resource page with the simple question "Was this helpful? Yes / No". If a resource page is created without this poll, we'd just add it after the fact. If a page gets too many "this wasn't helpful" votes, we can then decide to remove it or not. But of course, this requires a large active community and constant admin monitoring, so it's not really feasible.

tl;dr: In my opinion, quality control on programs is an unnecessary hassle that isn't required due to the way pages are sorted and the size of the community. Quality control on resource pages (tutorials) is desirable, but (in my opinion) not plausible due again to community size.