In reply to Johnny. Noting that there are three different groups mentioned here, so I want to make sure there is some clarity about who's who.

Forum moderators.

Plugin review team.

Core developers.

There is some cross-over between those groups. However, the forum mods only moderate the forums. The plugin review team decides what plugins are allowed. The core team is really just a lot of different folks who contribute to the core software (there is some hierarchy, but it's not relevant to this discussion). The forum mods don't decide if a plugin is allowed. They enforce the rules of the forum. The call on whether a plugin violated the directory rules falls to the Plugin Review Team. A forum mod can definitely escalate an issue up to the Plugin Review Team, but they generally don't have access to suspend plugins (as far as I know).