[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Srikanth Koneru]

Seems it was already discussed and rejected.


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> maybe a stupid idea, but why not introducing a payment option for theme
> reviews?
>
> I wouldn’t have a problem with paying theme reviewers for their work and
> time. Volunteer work is great and very honorable but at the moment we also
> see the downsides. Most people also have to work for their living, have
> families, hobbies, etc… and usually that doesn’t leave much time for other
> stuff. It seems there are very less people who actually want to invest time
> doing reviews without a benefit or a compensation.
>
> To be honest, as much as I love WordPress and would contribute doing
> reviews, I simply can’t. Why? Because the time is just too valuable and
> usually people don’t work for free. In that time I could do client work,
> create new themes, spent time with my family or just relax a bit to recover
> from daily business. And actually I think that’s the same for most of the
> people out there. It’s something else when we are talking about
> contributing by answering some questions in the support forum or other
> things that are less time consuming, but theme reviews are a responsibility
> and need time to complete properly, especially when we want to have high
> quality themes in the directory.
>
> A payment option would give people who are actually running a WordPress
> business the possibility to get faster theme reviews and also the reviewers
> would benefit from a compensation for their work. I think this could make
> this whole process a bit more desirable. The payment option could be
> optional, for example you can select when uploading a theme if you would
> like to pay or not and paid reviews would get a higher priority in the
> review queue.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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