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

Wed Jan 29 19:21:50 UTC 2014

Could always have the random themes that display be pulled by date as well, max 1 year since last update sort of thing.

From: Jose Castaneda 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:14 AM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers. 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Question: Someone Want to Take Benefit >From a'Top Reviewer of the Month'.

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:

  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'.

  I am with Chip here, paying your employee or employ someone
  is 100% the same, no difference whatsoever.

  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?

  Every time one of us mentions Featured Themes, entire* community jumps
  on. When we need help, only few of us replies. How come?

  http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/01/28/time-for-a-new-team-rep/ 

  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.

    On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Konrad Sroka <konrads at themekraft.com> wrote:

      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. 

        :)

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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 

        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. 

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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'.

        Awesome, I'll see what I can do. 

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