[theme-reviewers] Why the double standards and why Pagelines gets special treatment?

[Amy]

Thank you, Emil. 

On Mar 27, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> To all parties involved in this drama, as an admin (and others will agree) I am forced to moderate this specific and any other similar so called discussions. 
> There will be no more attacks on Theme Reviewers (Daniel is one of them just FYI)
> Stop calling out admins and other people on theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org list
> Do not take any personal vendettas against anyone, especially our reviewers, admins, stuff and the authors
> Have any issues after everything was explained to "you" in details, stop submitting your Theme(s) to repository
> I've personally had enough of this nonsense. List is no longer available to anyone with these "questions". If "you" continue I'll personally unsubscribe you from theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org list. 
> 
> This is real and personal abuse of our reviewers and other people as well!
> 
> Keep it clean,
> Emil
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Satish Gandham <satish.iitg at gmail.com> wrote:
> @Daniel Tara
> 
> *******I don't understand what's so difficult to grasp about asking and receiving a weaver from the guidelines.*******
> 
> Those special cases aren't necessary for the functioning of the theme their only purpose is to brand their theme.
> 
> I asked for an exception on base64encode as my themes import/export function depends on it. I never got any exception.
> 
>  
> This thread is about double standards and favoritism
> 
> 1. You yourself pointed that page lines clearly violates the GPL terms. Yet they continue to be in the repository. While my theme was suspended with in one day of notice.
> 
> 2. I was asked to rewrite my code as I was using two db entries to store options, but page lines is allowed to use 6
> 
> 3. I was asked to remove the fav icon, and page lines is allowed to enable their fav icon by default.
> 
> 4. How can you allow themes to rebrand wordpress login page without user consent?
> 
> 5. We are not allowed to hot link images on the options page because of privacy reasons.
>      How can you trust the developer in not using the hot linked images for tracking?
>      If you trust him, why not trust others?
> 
> 
> All I'm asking for is fair rules and transparency. 
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