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

Thu Jan 30 19:07:31 UTC 2014

yeah, it would be big. but maybe a dynamic page driven off trac for
completed theme reviews would work.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>>>>> :).
>>>>>>>>  _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>>>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>>>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>>
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20140130/1a830718/attachment-0001.html>