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Round 2: ThemeForest vs Gabfire Themes, Vote!

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collis staff says

Happy easter everybody! After our crushing victory in Round 1, we’re back up to the plate against an outfit called Gabfire themes.

If you have time to drop in a vote for ThemeForest, Vote Here for ThemeForest!

Yay! Hope we win this round too :-)

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duotive says

as always duotive is here :) voted.

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contempoinc says

Voted!

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digitalimpact says

Next, please! :)

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wpCanyonThemes says

Voted of course :)

First of all i just checked out Gabfire, even their own website’s design is crap (pardon my language ladies) and their themes, well let’s just say i saw many many themes that were rejected because of design here on TF and i can honestly say most of those rejected themes are better then those themes they have. Kailoon, go over to the gabfire owner, slap him in the face and say “REJECTED, BITCH ”. I keed i keed :)

Now, check out those comments on the voting page :) Incredible how all those comments sound like a cheap marketing “testimonial”.

Easy win, unless Gabfire bought people to vote, since it looks like they did bought them to comment.

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sevenspark moderator says

Voted :)

By the way, does this count as a “blog post”?

From WP Candy:
The home game: If either ThemeForest or Gabfire Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.

I doubt it. So maybe there should be a post in Envato Notes that we can all go comment on?

It says Tweets count as votes as well :)

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weblusive says

Voted of course :)

First of all i just checked out Gabfire, even their own website’s design is crap (pardon my language ladies) and their themes, well let’s just say i saw many many themes that were rejected because of design here on TF and i can honestly say most of those rejected themes are better then those themes they have. Kailoon, go over to the gabfire owner, slap him in the face and say “REJECTED, BITCH ”. I keed i keed :)

Now, check out those comments on the voting page :) Incredible how all those comments sound like a cheap marketing “testimonial”.

Easy win, unless Gabfire bought people to vote, since it looks like they did bought them to comment.

The approval criteria are arguable and don’t reflect the absolute truth on what theme is worth to be published. The judgment criteria you mentioned, are just for themeforest, it’s the reviewers’/network owners standards which apply only for themes being presented for approval here. From that view, I can say many themes being rejected should not be rejected, as many approved themes should not be approved. Again, it’s my subjective opinion, which can or can not be true. No offense, but I don’t understand the zero-tolerance policy to themeforest’s competitor companies of some members here… I don’t like many things here, starting from reviewer’s opinion which cannot be argued/changed in any case, even if they admit they were wrong in some point, still, rejection is rejection. But I don’t cry everywhere about it, just because if I want my work to be accepted, I must accept the rules of game. I hadn’t even heard of this Gabfire up to this point, but I think everyone has his ways of making business, and if you don’t like some company’s works, just vote for the one you like. Thus, I believe such comments should not take place anywhere, they are not constructive nor tolerant. I’m open to any discussion if you don’t agree with me.

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wpCanyonThemes says

Voted :)

By the way, does this count as a “blog post”?

From WP Candy:
The home game: If either ThemeForest or Gabfire Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.

I doubt it. So maybe there should be a post in Envato Notes that we can all go comment on?

It says Tweets count as votes as well :)

I think it counts. So let’s all make cheesy testimonial comments like our competitor that we’re going against in the poll :)

@webclusive – Ok, i just made an observation since i’m not blind. And let’s keep that “discussion” you mentioned about reviewers and quality on tf somewhere else, not on this thread. Ohh and to be honest i like a few themeforest’s competitors, so it’s not zero-tolerance as you said.

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cudazi staff says

Voted, for us of course. :)

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ThemeOcean says

I contacted gabfire themes and told them this:

“Please keep your website looking just as it is, it reflects the quality of your themes.”

Also, voted.

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