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

Wed Jan 29 19:14:52 UTC 2014

I think the issue that arose was exploiting the system by reviewing that persons theme regardless of position in the queue of tickets.

At least that is my take. I received a similar email about two months back. I never responded, just deleted it. 

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> On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
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> A Very Good Point raised by Emil.
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> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:52:26 -0600
> From: emil at uzelac.me
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
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> I am with Chip here, paying your employee or employ someone
> is 100% the same, no difference whatsoever.
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> The moment we said yes to commercial Theme shops to have their 
> people review tickets under a single username, is the moment we allowed 
> this very thing as well. Not sure what is the problem?
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> Every time one of us mentions Featured Themes, entire* community jumps
> on. When we need help, only few of us replies. How come?
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> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/01/28/time-for-a-new-team-rep/ 
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> all 3 options can be manipulated unfortunately, admin choice is fine but a bit more frequently would be nice.
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Konrad Sroka <konrads at themekraft.com> wrote:
> Otto +10000  
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> Why not get rid of the featured themes sections like it is now and have a filter for 
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> "most downloaded" and "best rated" 
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> Maybe add a filter or tag for commercially supported themes, so you know you can get professional support and stuff like that.. 
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> Or make a poll on wordpress.org twice a year and the results are the "featured" themes 
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> Cheers, Konrad 
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> 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.
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> +1 for the Redesign of landing Page. 
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> :)
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> From: zulfikarnore at live.com
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:11:33 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit From a 'Top Reviewer of the Month'.
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> 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.
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> 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 :)
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> So,
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> 1) Should we be paid to review themes in order to win and get the payer's theme featured? Certainly Not!
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> 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?
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> 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. 
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> 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'.
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> Awesome, I'll see what I can do. 
> 
> Christine Rondeau
> Bluelime Media
> www.bluelimemedia.com
> twitter: @bluelimemedia
> skype: bluelimemedia
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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. :)
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> -Otto
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