The Atlantic Monthly has a theme that is only available to people the Atlantic Monthly has hired to blog for them.

The purpose of this theme is not to capitalize on the same design ideas as Svbtle (that's what the DRAWAR.COM link alludes to). The purpose of the theme is to dilute SVBTLE.COM because the author is so insecure that not being invited to a group blog makes them bitter.

A willingness to publish under one's own name using this silly WP-SVBTLE theme says way more about the author of the blog than it does about Svbtle.

>A willingness to publish under one's own name using this silly WP-SVBTLE theme says way more about the author of the blog

The Atlantic theme looks like a fairly generic news website, to be honest.

That said, wow. You are reading a lot of personal bias into choice of website theme.

I was planning on grabbing this for my personal one just because I really, really like how it looks. If it's going to tick off people who over-extrapolate, so much the better ;)

I think it's a very bad idea to use this theme for your personal blog, regardless of what you think of Svbtle. But if you want your choice of blog theme to compete for attention with your ideas, that's your call.

I absolutely agree with this sentiment. There's no reason to choose this theme unless you're trying to confuse people that you're a part of this network. Unfortunately, the userbase you're trying to impress is smart enough to know the difference and you just end up looking the fool.

There's a difference between "inspired by" and "shamelessly copied from".