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

Thu Jan 30 18:52:03 UTC 2014

Over 100 people, to be exact.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Melissa Oveson <missybunnie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I see a problem with a meet the theme reviewers page. While the theme
> review team has quite a few regulars it also has a lot if rotating
> reviewers. So keeping a page like that up to date would be very tricky.
>
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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