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

[emin ozlem]

To weigh in shortly as an outsider; I did not even know how featured themes
were picked, now that i do -and briefly what's going on in the background
from the above-:

1- It's definitely not fair to the "theme developers" if the picking is
influenced by any means (apparently it is). So I was kind of negative at
first like Otto.
2- It's also not fair for the first guy who asked the question. I mean if
theme shops or their employees make advantage of this indirectly /
directly, why can not him ?

So I think a.) It should be -somehow- prevented for everyone to abuse the
system  | b.) Everyone should be allowed to make use of it if some other
people do.


2014-01-29 Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > For the sake of discussion: how is this any different from commercial
> Theme
> > shops paying their employees to perform Theme reviews, with the expressed
> > intent of ensuring that one of the Theme shop's Themes gets listed as
> > featured?
>
> A theme shop doesn't hire somebody to review themes, they hire them to
> create themes.
>
> I would argue that reviewing themes makes one a better theme developer
> overall. It should be the goal of a "theme shop" to improve their own
> abilities and such. Getting themes featured would be a possible
> side-benefit only.
>
> And realistically, if that's their marketing strategy, it's kind of a
> crappy one. They'd be better off advertising in other ways. The
> featured themes area is not how most people find themes.
>
>
> > In other words: why is it acceptable for commercial Theme shops to
> engage in
> > this sort of financial transaction to gain a benefit from WordPress.org,
> but
> > not for non-commercial developers?
>
> There is a difference between paying somebody for their work vs.
> paying them to exploit one of our programs.
>
> If everybody really thinks that this is acceptable, then the incentive
> program has ultimately failed and should be replaced with one that is
> not subject to being gamed like this.
>
> -Otto
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