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

[Rohit Tripathi]

Ratings and Polls can be very well Exploited to adulterate the results. Especially, Polls.

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:49:21 +0100
From: konrads at themekraft.com
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

Otto +10000  
Why not get rid of the featured themes sections like it is now and have a filter for 

"most downloaded" and "best rated" 


Maybe add a filter or tag for commercially supported themes, so you know you can get professional support and stuff like that.. 
Or make a poll on wordpress.org twice a year and the results are the "featured" themes 

Cheers, Konrad 


 

On 29 January 2014 18:25, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:




I am not in favour of switching Featured themes to a Random Themes Section. Because Many themes in the repository are outdated or not fully compatible with recent versions of WP.
+1 for the Redesign of landing Page. 

:)

From: zulfikarnore at live.com
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:11:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.




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



twitter: @bluelimemediaskype: bluelimemedia













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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