<div dir="ltr">I was a bit skeptical of the of the idea where the top reviewers got to choose their own themes for the featured list but thought it was okay to see where it went. Now that we are into it a ways I don't believe it is a good idea. It is apparent the practice skews the motivation for reviewing, and rushing through reviews to increase one's review count may come at the expense of a thorough review.<div>
<br></div><div>1. I don't think accepting money for naming someone's theme to the featured list is an honorable practice nor something .org wants to be associated with. I'm surprised there is debate about it, but it is great a civil debate can be had.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. I question whether there should even be a featured list. What is the purpose of "Featured Themes" in the first place? Is there a purpose? The definition of "featured" is "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">Given special prominence, attention, or publicity." It is simply giving special prominence without purpose or reason. </span> If we feel we need to show themes to people, let's define some type of themes we think would be of benefit to the users looking for a new theme, not the themes that would benefit us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. Theme reviewers make a great contribution and I thank all of you for that. You do a great job. I think creating a "Meet the Review Team" page with photos and profile links of all the theme reviewers would be a great way to acknowledge reviewers instead of doling out featured themes. here's a meet the team example page = <a href="http://goo.gl/eyJft6">http://goo.gl/eyJft6</a> It could also be ordered by number of reviews done to provide incentive. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:01 AM, emin ozlem <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eminozlem@gmail.com" target="_blank">eminozlem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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rule of not assigning more than one ticket before posting full review<br></blockquote></blockquote><br></div>With a lot of bigger parallel discussions; this look like a very tiny matter, but it's actually pretty important "rule" if you ask me. Over the past months we have witnessed more than a few reviewers literally "hoarding" tickets, i mean like 10-15. Naturally, they cant review them all, and sometimes tickets hang pending review for weeks. Just because of this I once remember waiting 3 weeks for a few lines of update ticket.<br>
<br></div>I can understand if people are busy and there is no one to review; I'll even wait months if that's what it takes, after all it's volunteering. But when people are complaining about "not being able to get enough tickets" like @Trent, it's absurd to wait because of those ticket hoarders.<br>
<br></div>@Chip specifically stated that it's not a "rule" but rather common sense, but I think it should definitely be a rule. The reviewers should be able to get; maybe not one, but say, two-three tickets at most before completing them.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-01-29 Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span>:<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't look at that as a "new rule". I look at that as "common sense", and I'm disappointed that we even have to state it explicitly.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Then work for it, completion will always be there....<br></div>With the new rule of not assigning more than one ticket before posting full review, you will have more than fair chance of winning it.<br>
</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Trent Lapinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent@cyberchimps.com" target="_blank">trent@cyberchimps.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>A redesign of <a href="http://WordPress.org/themes" target="_blank">WordPress.org/themes</a> is actually pointless because no one actually visits <a href="http://WordPress.org/themes" target="_blank">WordPress.org/themes</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I recall correctly the last time I asked Otto about this in person, it is actually one of the least visited pages on <a href="http://WordPress.org" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a>.</div><div><br>
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<div>Almost all theme traffic is driven from within WP-Admin > Appearance > Themes > Featured Themes.</div><div><br></div><div>The importance of being featured is being displayed in WP-Admin to get your theme in front of hundreds of thousands if not millions of WordPress users who don’t even know <a href="http://WordPress.org" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a> as a website even exists.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A redesign of .org/themes will not accomplish anything unfortunately.</div><div><br></div><div>As long as Featured themes is in core it will be the best and only way to get a theme in front of most WordPress users.</div>
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<br></div><div><div><div><div>On Jan 29, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Bryan Hadaway <<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><b>@Emil</b> - I don't want to take credit, as a few others already mentioned a redesign of <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/themes/</a>.<br>
<br></div>One idea that might work is to instead of having "Featured" themes be so prominent and everything else, simple text link lists, there could be 4 columns (floated divs) side-by-side, equal in size to one another, all with screenshots:<br>
<br></div>Featured | Popular | New | Updated<br><br></div>That way, both featured themes and naturally popular themes would share the real estate and exposure. But, if I remember correctly, it might be a difficulty of it being dynamic and not static, which would need to manually be managed?<br>
<br><b>@</b><span><b>Srikanth</b> - I'm not sure Chip does video design? <b>@Chip</b>? Either way, if there happen to be any video designers reading this discussion that would be interested, and if no one objects to the idea of us donating some money into a community pot for this project, I'd throw down.<br>
<br></span></div><span>Speaking of donations, what do you think about a PayPal account for non-paid-admins to receive donations, something they can split evenly among themselves at the end of every month? Perhaps, I'm getting ahead of myself. :).<br>
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