[theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

[Chip Bennett]

IMHO, as long as the relationship is disclosed, there's nothing wrong with
it. Commercial Theme shops currently review Themes, with the intent of
winning the review incentive, and having one of the Theme shops' Themes
featured. There's nothing wrong with that at all. The Theme shops review
Themes under the Theme shop's WPORG username, and it's all open. And to be
counted toward the incentive, tickets must not only be closed as
"approved", but also pushed live by an admin after the post-approval audit
step.

I don't see any opportunity for the system to be gamed, and there is
nothing inherently wrong with Reviewers getting paid for their time and
effort. The key is full disclosure, so that the relationship (and
featured-theme selection) is transparent.

Just my opinion...


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Kharis Sulistiyono
<kharisblank at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm WordPress theme reviewer. Someone suddenly tried to make direct
> contact via email this evening. He wanted to take benefit from my
> theme reviewing works. Here is the main idea of the message:
>
> "You will just review the wp.org themes as you do now, and we will pay
> you for it. But you need to be a top reviewer of the month so you can
> choose our theme to be in the featured section. Is this interesting
> for you? Let us know. Thanks."
>
> I want to know whether it is allowed or not. Had anyone ever had
> similar experience?
>
> If you were in my position, as professional theme reviewer what will you
> do?
>
> From my personal point of view, doing something like this is not good.
> It is a crucial issue dealing with maintaining featured themes
> quality. Because it is driven by money rather than objectiveness of
> theme reviewers.
>
> How WordPress respond this problem? Further more, I'm really curious
> of how WordPress maintain the featured themes stay badass and
> 'healthy'.
>
> All the best.
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