[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Emil Uzelac]

Michael,

No idea is stupid, however this specific one does not make much sense.

We all have jobs, families and hobbies and still find time to contribute.

The idea is to give back when you can and how much you can and every little
counts.

Thanks,
Emil


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems it was already discussed and rejected.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> maybe a stupid idea, but why not introducing a payment option for theme
>> reviews?
>>
>> I wouldn’t have a problem with paying theme reviewers for their work and
>> time. Volunteer work is great and very honorable but at the moment we also
>> see the downsides. Most people also have to work for their living, have
>> families, hobbies, etc… and usually that doesn’t leave much time for other
>> stuff. It seems there are very less people who actually want to invest time
>> doing reviews without a benefit or a compensation.
>>
>> To be honest, as much as I love WordPress and would contribute doing
>> reviews, I simply can’t. Why? Because the time is just too valuable and
>> usually people don’t work for free. In that time I could do client work,
>> create new themes, spent time with my family or just relax a bit to recover
>> from daily business. And actually I think that’s the same for most of the
>> people out there. It’s something else when we are talking about
>> contributing by answering some questions in the support forum or other
>> things that are less time consuming, but theme reviews are a responsibility
>> and need time to complete properly, especially when we want to have high
>> quality themes in the directory.
>>
>> A payment option would give people who are actually running a WordPress
>> business the possibility to get faster theme reviews and also the reviewers
>> would benefit from a compensation for their work. I think this could make
>> this whole process a bit more desirable. The payment option could be
>> optional, for example you can select when uploading a theme if you would
>> like to pay or not and paid reviews would get a higher priority in the
>> review queue.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
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