[wp-forums] We are not the theme police

[Andrew2.Nevins]

Ø  One of our moderators accused a user of "stealing" a theme

That is your interpretation of what I said. I didn't actually say or accuse that.


Ø  basically told the user "we don't support stolen themes"

Bingo.  We don't.


Ø  We are not the theme police and shouldn't be judging or even questioning people on how they acquired a theme or plugin


I did neither. There was literally now talk as to how the person acquired the theme.


Ø  Stealing and GPL shouldn't even be used in the same sentence

Both "Stealing" and "GPL" were never used in that thread.  You are referring to things that I never wrote.


Ø  The question was really a CSS question and could have applied to ANY theme or website

No. CSS questions are theme and site specific. If we actually want to provide some useful information then we need to be supporting the user's particular theme. As Mika mentioned, you can provide all the non-site-specific CSS you want but eventually the user will need to implement it into their theme and then you can run into troubles with the theme doing things weirdly. I've offered plenty of CSS support for WooThemes, for example, and people just cannot implement the CSS because WooThemes handles CSS specially.


Ø  If you don't want to answer a question move on and let somebody else answer it.

What does the OP really want? In my opinion the OP wants the answer regardless of the source it comes from and what better than to ask the theme's author?


Ø  I normally don't step over other moderators but I edited the response even though it was too late and the user saw it.

If that person didn't know that their theme's vendors distribute stolen themes then I am glad that the person does now. That person can make a judgement for him/herself as to whether to continue using it .

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Since I edited the original post and removed the theme's vendors pretty much as soon as the thread was created, I'm just surprised that you do not 'trust' moderators to make these judgements (not a dirty word) fairly.