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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I Received this e-mail as well, a few weeks ago. I chose to ignore it completely.<br><br><div>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:04:42 +0700<br>> From: kharisblank@gmail.com<br>> To: theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>> Subject: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.<br>> <br>> I'm WordPress theme reviewer. Someone suddenly tried to make direct<br>> contact via email this evening. He wanted to take benefit from my<br>> theme reviewing works. Here is the main idea of the message:<br>> <br>> "You will just review the wp.org themes as you do now, and we will pay<br>> you for it. But you need to be a top reviewer of the month so you can<br>> choose our theme to be in the featured section. Is this interesting<br>> for you? Let us know. Thanks."<br>> <br>> I want to know whether it is allowed or not. Had anyone ever had<br>> similar experience?<br>> <br>> If you were in my position, as professional theme reviewer what will you do?<br>> <br>> From my personal point of view, doing something like this is not good.<br>> It is a crucial issue dealing with maintaining featured themes<br>> quality. Because it is driven by money rather than objectiveness of<br>> theme reviewers.<br>> <br>> How WordPress respond this problem? Further more, I'm really curious<br>> of how WordPress maintain the featured themes stay badass and<br>> 'healthy'.<br>> <br>> All the best.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> theme-reviewers mailing list<br>> theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers<br></div> </div></body>
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