<div dir="ltr"><div>Awesome Justin, Themeshop's can pool in some cash and donate X hrs of your time a month to push themes live?<br></div>Assuming its affordable and Otto is okay with that?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.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">I do paid theme reviews, mostly for commercial theme authors. I'll be more than happy to review themes for anyone in this manner and would knock my price down for free themes. It won't get your theme reviewed/live any faster (you still have to go through the normal review process here), but it'll certainly get your code to a point where it should pass the theme review with flying colors.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">But all theme shops can pool some resources, hire a part time reviewer for 2-4 hrs a day and donate him to review team just like bluehost donates a full time employee to core team. (There maybe some conflict of interest issues tough)<br>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Michael,</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">No idea is stupid, however this specific one does not make much sense.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We all have jobs, families and hobbies and still find time to contribute. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The idea is to give back when you can and how much you can and every little counts.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil</font></div></div><div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:14 AM, 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">Seems it was already discussed and rejected.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@mhthemes.com" target="_blank">michael@mhthemes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Howdy,<div><br></div><div>maybe a stupid idea, but why not introducing a payment option for theme reviews?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px">Michael</span></div>
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