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

Thu Jan 30 18:58:28 UTC 2014

We're big :)

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Over 100 people, to be exact.
>
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> 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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