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

Wed Jan 29 19:49:06 UTC 2014

Not possible for an individual to compete against the might of theme shops.
They can have 4 guys reviewing 4 themes simultaneously.
Was this vote admin only vote? don't recall it on the list.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was originally out-voted on not allowing "theme shops" have one account
> for all of their employees to use as I was concerned it would create an
> "unfair advantage" for them to choose a Featured Theme (and why wouldn't
> they choose their own?) so there is not much more I can add to this
> conversation except to say I agree for the most part with Otto's responses.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
> philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>
>>   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 <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:14 AM
>> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
>> *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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
>>
>>  A Very Good Point raised by Emil.
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> 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/
>>
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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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> :)
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> 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: @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. :)
>>
>> -Otto
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