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<body class='hmmessage'><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 id="stopSpelling">From: christine@bluelimemedia.com<br>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:02:39 -0800<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">Awesome, I'll see what I can do. </div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><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 class="ecxgmail_quote">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 class="ecxgmail_quote" 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">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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