[wp-forums] Comment about [sticky] Posts requests for theme decoding in here

[mrmist]

In message <4C24C69B.5070809 at automattic.com>, Jane Wells 
<jane at automattic.com> writes
>
> A boilerplate sentence promoting safe, reputable theme sources and 
>linking to the one for their current theme would maybe be good.
>Jane

We have the "How to Decrypt an encoded theme" sticky (separate to the 
decode themes here thread) which already discourages the use of the 
themes - but judging from the traffic on "decode themes here" the advice 
falls on deaf ears.

if anyone fancies re-wording the How to Decrypt sticky so that it offers 
a stronger positional statement, I for one welcome you to take a stab at 
it.

I sit firmly on the fence with this one, having been swayed by both 
sides of the argument.  It's a tricky judgement to make.  However, the 
popularity of the thread does suggest that - should we close the sticky 
- there'd still be requests made, and - should we then want to take a 
hard line on it - there'd be a reasonably large moderation overhead.
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mrmist