[theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

[Srikanth Koneru]

Top three reviewers get to pick a featured theme, so we were picking our
own themes, I don't see any issue with picking someone else's theme in
exchange for money if you want to.
Its same as hiring/employing someone to review on my theme shop's behalf.


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Kharis Sulistiyono
<kharisblank at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm WordPress theme reviewer. Someone suddenly tried to make direct
> contact via email this evening. He wanted to take benefit from my
> theme reviewing works. Here is the main idea of the message:
>
> "You will just review the wp.org themes as you do now, and we will pay
> you for it. But you need to be a top reviewer of the month so you can
> choose our theme to be in the featured section. Is this interesting
> for you? Let us know. Thanks."
>
> I want to know whether it is allowed or not. Had anyone ever had
> similar experience?
>
> If you were in my position, as professional theme reviewer what will you
> do?
>
> From my personal point of view, doing something like this is not good.
> It is a crucial issue dealing with maintaining featured themes
> quality. Because it is driven by money rather than objectiveness of
> theme reviewers.
>
> How WordPress respond this problem? Further more, I'm really curious
> of how WordPress maintain the featured themes stay badass and
> 'healthy'.
>
> All the best.
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