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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Ratings and Polls can be very well Exploited to adulterate the results. Especially, Polls.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:49:21 +0100<br>From: konrads@themekraft.com<br>To: theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Otto +10000 </div><div><br></div><div>Why not get rid of the featured themes sections like it is now and have a filter for <br></div><div><br></div><div>"most downloaded" and "best rated" </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe add a filter or tag for commercially supported themes, so you know you can get professional support and stuff like that.. </div><div><br></div><div>Or make a poll on <a href="http://wordpress.org" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> twice a year and the results are the "featured" themes </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers, Konrad </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 29 January 2014 18:25, Rohit Tripathi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohitink@live.com" target="_blank">rohitink@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">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 Because Many themes in the repository are outdated or not fully compatible with recent versions of WP.<div><br></div><div>+1 for the Redesign of landing Page. </div>
<div><br></div><div>:)<br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:zulfikarnore@live.com" target="_blank">zulfikarnore@live.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:11:33 +0000<div><div class="h5"><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.<br><br>
<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<br>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 :)<br>
<br>So,<br><br>1) Should we be paid to review themes in order to win and get the payer's theme featured? Certainly Not!<br><br>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?<br>
<br>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 :)<br>
<br>I second and +1 the call for a redesign of the landing page. <br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:christine@bluelimemedia.com" target="_blank">christine@bluelimemedia.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:02:39 -0800<br>
To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.<br>
<br><div dir="ltr">Awesome, I'll see what I can do. </div><div><br clear="all"><div><i><b></b></i>Christine Rondeau<br>Bluelime Media<br><a href="http://www.bluelimemedia.com" target="_blank">www.bluelimemedia.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div>On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Christine Rondeau<br>
<<a href="mailto:christine@bluelimemedia.com" target="_blank">christine@bluelimemedia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I still think that<br>
> rethinking the theme landing page with a better more visual design would be<br>
> nice.<br>
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I wholeheartedly agree. Poke your designer friends. We need a better design. :)<br>
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-Otto<br>
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