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

Wed Jan 29 19:44:05 UTC 2014

I was originally out-voted on not allowing "theme shops" have one account
for all of their employees to use as I was concerned it would create an
"unfair advantage" for them to choose a Featured Theme (and why wouldn't
they choose their own?) so there is not much more I can add to this
conversation except to say I agree for the most part with Otto's responses.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net
> wrote:

>   Could always have the random themes that display be pulled by date as
> well, max 1 year since last update sort of thing.
>
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>  *From:* Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:14 AM
> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit
> From a'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
>
>  I think the issue that arose was exploiting the system by reviewing that
> persons theme regardless of position in the queue of tickets.
>
> At least that is my take. I received a similar email about two months
> back. I never responded, just deleted it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
>
>  A Very Good Point raised by Emil.
>
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> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:52:26 -0600
> From: emil at uzelac.me
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From
> a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
>
>  I am with Chip here, paying your employee or employ someone
> is 100% the same, no difference whatsoever.
>
> The moment we said yes to commercial Theme shops to have their
> people review tickets under a single username, is the moment we allowed
> this very thing as well. Not sure what is the problem?
>
> Every time one of us mentions Featured Themes, entire* community jumps
> on. When we need help, only few of us replies. How come?
>
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/01/28/time-for-a-new-team-rep/
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> all 3 options can be manipulated unfortunately, admin choice is fine but a
> bit more frequently would be nice.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Konrad Sroka <konrads at themekraft.com>wrote:
>
>  Otto +10000
>
> Why not get rid of the featured themes sections like it is now and have a
> filter for
>
> "most downloaded" and "best rated"
>
>
> Maybe add a filter or tag for commercially supported themes, so you know
> you can get professional support and stuff like that..
>
> Or make a poll on wordpress.org twice a year and the results are the
> "featured" themes
>
> Cheers, Konrad
>
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> On 29 January 2014 18:25, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
>
>  I am not in favour of switching Featured themes to a Random Themes
> Section. Because Many themes in the repository are outdated or not fully
> compatible with recent versions of WP.
>
> +1 for the Redesign of landing Page.
>
> :)
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: zulfikarnore at live.com
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:11:33 +0000
>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From
> a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
>
> Part of the original question asked "has this happened to anyone" (not the
> exact words) - the answer is yes, not once not twice but a good few times.
> Initial response? I responded with not part of my business plan/working
> model! Then followed by "mark as junk" and now that is where (if any) those
> emails land and deleted without a first look never mind a second.
>
> For me the incentive scheme and having a theme featured for my hard work
> is only a bonus - true benefit is derived from learning code as Otto said.
> The real reward out of it all will be when one day I create a theme from
> scratch, submit, have it reviewed, approved and made live without a single
> issue being raised - now that is (will be) the achievement :)
>
> So,
>
> 1) Should we be paid to review themes in order to win and get the payer's
> theme featured? Certainly Not!
>
> 2) Should commercial theme shops pay their employees to review for the
> same end in mind? Weather they get a theme featured or not they are going
> to pay their employee regardless. So that is their prerogative - but should
> they hire for the sole purpose of reviewing and getting featured? To me
> that is no any difference to 1 above and is a No!, but who is going to
> police it?
>
> Solution? Switch the "Featured themes" section to a "Random themes"
> section and let the system cycle though all and any theme on a given time
> period and everyone is a winner. Easier said than done with over 2000
> themes I know :)
>
> I second and +1 the call for a redesign of the landing page.
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: christine at bluelimemedia.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:02:39 -0800
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From
> a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
>
> Awesome, I'll see what I can do.
>
> Christine Rondeau
> Bluelime Media
> www.bluelimemedia.com
> twitter: @bluelimemedia
> skype: bluelimemedia
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Christine Rondeau
> <christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
> > I still think that
> > rethinking the theme landing page with a better more visual design would
> be
> > nice.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree. Poke your designer friends. We need a better
> design. :)
>
> -Otto
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