[theme-reviewers] How much should I weigh looks, scalability, and functionality?

[Otto]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com> wrote:
> Also, if I have a lot of categories, only the first 4
> show up in the primary navigation menu.

There's a difference between "broken site" and "design choice". If the
theme is designed to intentionally only allow 4 entries there, then
that's okay. If it displays something visibly broken when you exceed 4
entries (like cut off text, etc), then that's not okay.

Whether a "little" problem is cause for failing the theme or not is
more of a subjective call. For example, if an absurdly long post title
causes a weird result, then that should be noted, but if it's the
*only* problem then it may just be something to tell the theme
developer to fix in the next version. On the other hand, if there are
several different "little" problems like this, then you may decide
that yes, this is too many, so they need to be fixed in order to be
approved. At what point those "little" problems accumulate into a
"fail" is up to you.

-Otto