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

[Zulfikar Nore]

Part of the original question asked "has this happened to anyone" (not the exact words) - the answer is yes, not once not twice but a good few times. Initial response? I responded with not part of my business plan/working model! Then followed by "mark as junk" and now that is where (if any) those emails land and deleted without a first look never mind a second.

For me the incentive scheme and having a theme featured for my hard work is only a bonus - true benefit is derived from learning code as Otto said. The real reward out of it all will be when one day I create a theme from scratch, submit, have it reviewed, approved and made live without a single issue being raised - now that is (will be) the achievement :)

So,

1) Should we be paid to review themes in order to win and get the payer's theme featured? Certainly Not!

2) Should commercial theme shops pay their employees to review for the same end in mind? Weather they get a theme featured or not they are going to pay their employee regardless. So that is their prerogative - but should they hire for the sole purpose of reviewing and getting featured? To me that is no any difference to 1 above and is a No!, but who is going to police it?

Solution? Switch the "Featured themes" section to a "Random themes" section and let the system cycle though all and any theme on a given time period and everyone is a winner. Easier said than done with over 2000 themes I know :)

I second and +1 the call for a redesign of the landing page. 

From: christine at bluelimemedia.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:02:39 -0800
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

Awesome, I'll see what I can do. Christine Rondeau
Bluelime Media
www.bluelimemedia.com


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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Christine Rondeau

<christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:

> I still think that

> rethinking the theme landing page with a better more visual design would be

> nice.



I wholeheartedly agree. Poke your designer friends. We need a better design. :)



-Otto

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