<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My case months back was that we should do this for all theme names, generic and non-generic, if we said no back then none of this would be even talked about.</div><div class="gmail_default" style><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/business-pro">https://wordpress.org/themes/business-pro</a></font><br></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/business-lite">https://wordpress.org/themes/business-lite</a></span><br></li></ul><div>That was quick search only. And I haven't mention "News" related, or "Magazine".</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.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"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Thomas from ThemeZee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@themezee.com" target="_blank">contact@themezee.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">@Otto: Didn't see your answer until now, thanks for clarification. I already had a strong hunch that blocking theme names would never be allowed and I do not really intend to do it ;)<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">I understand that, and I didn't think you would. :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My point is that this is a reasonable reaction to this sort of thing, and it's something we want to avoid.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think the reviewers are capable of recognizing bad actors submitting themes to the repository and abusing name similarities like this. It shouldn't need to be said that "spam" or any form of abusive practices are to be disallowed, obviously. And this really shouldn't need to be codified into some kind of "rule" that we can follow to the very letter. No such rule is going to cover all cases equally.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So reviewers, use your brain. You're people, not machines. If the rules could be made to be 100% perfect for all cases, then we wouldn't need people to do the reviews.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Otto</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></font></span></div>
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