[theme-reviewers] Payment Option for Theme Reviews

[Srikanth Koneru]

Awesome Justin, Themeshop's can pool in some cash and donate X hrs of your
time a month to push themes live?
Assuming its affordable and Otto is okay with that?


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
wrote:

> I do paid theme reviews, mostly for commercial theme authors.  I'll be
> more than happy to review themes for anyone in this manner and would knock
> my price down for free themes.  It won't get your theme reviewed/live any
> faster (you still have to go through the normal review process here), but
> it'll certainly get your code to a point where it should pass the theme
> review with flying colors.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> But all theme shops can pool some resources, hire a part time reviewer
>> for 2-4 hrs a day and donate him to review team just like bluehost donates
>> a full time employee to core team. (There maybe some conflict of interest
>> issues tough)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> No idea is stupid, however this specific one does not make much sense.
>>>
>>> We all have jobs, families and hobbies and still find time to
>>> contribute.
>>>
>>> The idea is to give back when you can and how much you can and every
>>> little counts.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Emil
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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