In reply to Nate Wright.

You have to understand that we also have authors coming to us with things like "this review talks about how features in the paid version of the plugin didn't work for them, so since it's not talking about the free version, please remove the review". It's obvious that they're trying to silence criticism of their product by these means, and thus that the free version only exists to upsell to the paid version of the same thing. Critical and important features, features which are talked about in the plugin's description, are missing from the free version specifically in order to sell the paid version. Things like that.

This happens a lot. Note that we don't remove those reviews. If you talk about it in the free version, if the free version upsells you to the paid version, then people are perfectly free to talk about their experiences with the paid version on the forums. That upsell experience itself is part of the plugin, therefore discussing the paid version is fair game, in my view.

I wish this wasn't the case as much as it is, is all. I'd prefer the directory to be filled with nothing but good, working code. I'd prefer paid versions of plugins to be add-ons which actually add extra functionality, rather than have the free versions be stripped down (sometimes to near uselessness) versions of the actual plugin. But more and more often, no, we see "X Lite" added to the directory instead of "X Pro" being what you can optionally buy. If you get my meaning.