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

[Christine Rondeau]

I remember the theme discussion at the community summit, one of the
suggestion for the theme section of the WP.org was to modify the design and
use the wordpress.com display instead with loads of great visuals.

Many things were suggested that day ( it was awesome ) and I'm sure that
there were other options that were favoured, but I still think that
rethinking the theme landing page with a better more visual design would be
nice.

Christine Rondeau
Bluelime Media
www.bluelimemedia.com
twitter: @bluelimemedia
skype: bluelimemedia









On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> There seem to be two different types of issues here:
>
> 1. The issue of disclosure of the financial arrangement
> 2. The issue of WPORG advertising space not being up for sale under any
> circumstances
>
> The first issue is a matter of disclosure, which commercial Theme shops
> are absolutely up-front about. But the second issue isn't resolved merely
> by disclosure.
>
> And we're put in a bad position regardless of how we resolve it: either we
> treat commercial Theme shops unfairly by telling them that they're welcome
> to contribute Theme reviews, but can no longer select Featured Themes; or
> else we treat individual commercial developers unfairly by telling them
> that they can't pay a contractor to conduct Theme reviews, while
> simultaneously letting commercial Theme shops devote labor costs for
> full-time employees toward the same end.
>
> Or, we eliminate the incentive program, so that we have no opportunity for
> any preferential treatment or perception of selling WPORG advertising space
> - and go back to the time when the WPTRT (and especially the admins) were
> continuously questioned/badgered about subjective selection of Featured
> Themes.
>
> Or, we eliminate the Featured Themes altogether, and thus eliminate the
> root cause of the problem.
>
> Where is there a win-win here, no matter what we decide?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Let's be realistic: a commercial Theme shop devoting labor costs to
>> review
>> > Themes is primarily a matter of helping to ensure that the Theme shop
>> can
>> > have their Theme featured. Or is it only coincidence that commercial
>> Theme
>> > shops started participating in Theme Review when we began the incentive
>> > program?
>>
>> It seems to me that there is a difference between having your existing
>> employees do reviews in the hopes of getting a theme featured vs.
>> straight up hiring people to do reviews for that explicit purpose.
>>
>> Advertising space on WordPress.org is not for sale, by any means, and
>> if that is all that this system has truly become, then we need to
>> revisit the program.
>>
>> -Otto
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