I'm not suprised at all by this which is why I have not applied for an account. NO ONE WILL CONTRIBUTE BACK if veteran themers don't embrace new themers.

There's nothing wrong with positive criticism. We all can stand room for improvement in some areas. In fact, I'm sure there are many web and usibility designers that can come along and look at at some of the themes that have already been created by themers in contrib and criticize the lack of Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator or CSS skills.

I agree 100% that regardless of who it is coming to the community whether it's developer or themer, issues should be handled in the issue queue.