[theme-reviewers] Public Redress of Theme Reviewers

[Chip Bennett]

Otto (and anyone else in a similar capacity who has made rather public
statements critical of the Theme Review process, guidelines, and team),

I find it completely unacceptable for anyone in any official (or
quasi-official) capacity to publicly redress *volunteers* who are making a
good-faith effort to perform the task of reviewing Themes.

Frumph's review of Matala was a good-faith effort, in line with the
Guidelines as they currently exist. To call his "behavior" (a characteristic
that plays no part in reviews; perhaps you mean "performance"?)
"unacceptable" is itself unacceptable, and flat-out wrong.

Feedback and criticism is ALWAYS welcome. We're trying to do our best.
Please be respectful to our time and effort (and good faith) as volunteers.
Bring criticism first to the team (ideally, using this mail list), rather
than making team members look bad publicly, as well as publicly undercutting
our efforts here.

We understand that you have criticism - much of which is valid, and that we
are (again) doing our best to address. But you acting like a bully with
respect to your criticism isn't going to help anyone. Quite honestly, it
comes across like mortar fire, and I can't imagine any of us being all that
amenable to such friendly fire.

Chip
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