In reply to Sonja London.

I hope this discussion results in some limitations on how far plugin authors can go to promote.

Maybe some guidelines?

I would also hope that we look at some of the heavy handed efforts to silence the critics.

The review you mention is, I believe this one. I’m going to defend this robustly because not only is Jan an extremely hard-working admin in the forums but doesn’t work for Automattic, so has no position here. What he does do is spend a lot of HIM time volunteering to help administer the forums (which includes reviews).

What you’re seeing here is what will happen for ANY review if you attend to stop using it as a review but more as a general rant, which falls very much into the territory of using it like a blog. In this case, Jan has clearly explained this and then closed it for further comment.

Based on this, you believe that dissenting voices are being silenced? Quite unbelievable.