@Ted Clayton -

Fantastic comment Ted.

"I also maintain passions for sex, gardening, hiking, electronics and nuclear power" -> In that order?? Sex and gardening all day!!!

To address one of your points, I do not think it is fair that WP Tavern is being linked to on all my WordPress websites. It's an abuse of power. I didn't like that WebTools Collection was linked for several years too. All it did was post summaries of the latest themes and plugins - they did not even review them. I suspect most posts took less than 15 minutes to write. Why could these links have not come directly from the directory itself?

Also, why aren't websites such as WP Lift, WP Mayor or WP SQuared being linked within the admin area? When I run WPMods.com I was writing 3,000 word articles every day and I submitted my site to be linked there, but it was not. WP Tavern is a great blog, but I can think of a dozen other WordPress blogs that should be listed too.

Likewise, of the seven featured plugins that are linked in the official plugin directory, five out of the seven listed are from Automattic. And one of the other ones (Hotfix) was designed by people who develop the WordPress core. Is that fair? No, not really. I could list 50 better plugins that should be listed in that section.

Of course, this is a big discussion in its own right. It is not something that concerns me too much if I'm honest. Their game, their rules :)

Kevin