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

Thu Jan 30 15:18:13 UTC 2014

Its almost a full time job to won the contest i.e. if the reviews are
through, featured listing gives us a boost in sales to pro versions, a meet
the team page won't

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Chris Dohman <cpd at dohman.net> wrote:

> I was a bit skeptical of the of the idea where the top reviewers got to
> choose their own themes for the featured list but thought it was okay to
> see where it went. Now that we are into it a ways I don't believe it is a
> good idea. It is apparent the practice skews the motivation for reviewing,
> and rushing through reviews to increase one's review count may come at the
> expense of a thorough review.
>
> 1. I don't  think accepting money for naming someone's theme to the
> featured list is an honorable practice nor something .org wants to be
> associated with. I'm surprised there is debate about it, but it is great a
> civil debate can be had.
>
> 2. I question whether there should even be a featured list. What is the
> purpose of "Featured Themes" in the first place? Is there a purpose? The
> definition of "featured" is "Given special prominence, attention, or
> publicity." It is simply giving special prominence without purpose or
> reason.  If we feel we need to show themes to people, let's define some
> type of themes we think would be of benefit to the users looking for a new
> theme, not the themes that would benefit us.
>
> 3. Theme reviewers make a great contribution and I thank all of you for
> that. You do a great job. I think creating a "Meet the Review Team" page
> with photos and profile links of all the theme reviewers would be a great
> way to acknowledge reviewers instead of doling out featured themes. here's
> a meet the team example page = http://goo.gl/eyJft6 It could also be
> ordered by number of reviews done to provide incentive.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:01 AM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   rule of not assigning more than one ticket before posting full review
>>>>
>>>
>> With a lot of bigger parallel discussions; this look like a very tiny
>> matter, but it's actually pretty important "rule" if you ask me. Over the
>> past months we have witnessed more than a few reviewers literally
>> "hoarding" tickets, i mean like 10-15. Naturally, they cant review them
>> all, and sometimes tickets hang pending review for weeks. Just because of
>> this I once remember waiting 3 weeks for a few lines of update ticket.
>>
>> I can understand if people are busy and there is no one to review; I'll
>> even wait months if that's what it takes, after all it's volunteering. But
>> when people are complaining about "not being able to get enough tickets"
>> like @Trent, it's absurd to wait because of those ticket hoarders.
>>
>> @Chip specifically stated that it's not a "rule" but rather common sense,
>> but I think it should definitely be a rule. The reviewers should be able to
>> get; maybe not one, but say, two-three tickets at most before completing
>> them.
>>
>>
>> 2014-01-29 Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>:
>>
>>  I don't look at that as a "new rule". I look at that as "common sense",
>>> and I'm disappointed that we even have to state it explicitly.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Then work for it, completion will always be there....
>>>> With the new rule of not assigning more than one ticket before posting
>>>> full review, you will have more than fair chance of winning it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Trent Lapinski <trent at cyberchimps.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A redesign of WordPress.org/themes is actually pointless because no
>>>>> one actually visits WordPress.org/themes.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I recall correctly the last time I asked Otto about this in person,
>>>>> it is actually one of the least visited pages on WordPress.org.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Almost all theme traffic is driven from within WP-Admin > Appearance
>>>>> > Themes > Featured Themes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The importance of being featured is being displayed in WP-Admin to get
>>>>> your theme in front of hundreds of thousands if not millions of WordPress
>>>>> users who don't even know WordPress.org as a website even exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> A redesign of .org/themes will not accomplish anything unfortunately.
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as Featured themes is in core it will be the best and only way
>>>>> to get a theme in front of most WordPress users.
>>>>>
>>>>>  --Trent Lapinski
>>>>> =============
>>>>> CEO of CyberChimps Inc.
>>>>> http://CyberChimps.com
>>>>> Twitter @trentlapinski
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> *@Emil* - I don't want to take credit, as a few others already
>>>>> mentioned a redesign of http://wordpress.org/themes/.
>>>>>
>>>>> One idea that might work is to instead of having "Featured" themes be
>>>>> so prominent and everything else, simple text link lists, there could be 4
>>>>> columns (floated divs) side-by-side, equal in size to one another, all with
>>>>> screenshots:
>>>>>
>>>>> Featured | Popular | New | Updated
>>>>>
>>>>> That way, both featured themes and naturally popular themes would
>>>>> share the real estate and exposure. But, if I remember correctly, it might
>>>>> be a difficulty of it being dynamic and not static, which would need to
>>>>> manually be managed?
>>>>>
>>>>> *@**Srikanth* - I'm not sure Chip does video design? *@Chip*? Either
>>>>> way, if there happen to be any video designers reading this discussion that
>>>>> would be interested, and if no one objects to the idea of us donating some
>>>>> money into a community pot for this project, I'd throw down.
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of donations, what do you think about a PayPal account for
>>>>> non-paid-admins to receive donations, something they can split evenly among
>>>>> themselves at the end of every month? Perhaps, I'm getting ahead of myself.
>>>>> :).
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