In reply to Peter Cralen.

WordPress.org should be for share, not a sale. It is not an advertising platform.

Totally agree. ;)

I would apply more strict policy for plugins. Developers have other channels for advertising their business.

Totally disagree. ;)

*Pulls out soap box, remains cognizant that this is a comment and not my blog ?*

Policy, guidelines and standards: A policy is high level and vague, a guideline is less vague but still not set in stone. Standards are well, definitions and tend to be inflexible on purpose.

The WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines isn't a strict policy. Except for items like number 10 (powered by links) it is subjective. Serviceware gets around that one BTW.

What one person defines as "cheap marketing" may be fine and allowed by the guidelines. When there is a question or a not-sure then the plugins team can be pinged. As indicated above in Jeff's post that does get acted on when found and the plugin team agrees with the complaint.

Not all complaints will be valid, some up sell are just gauche. It's up to the plugins team (and theme review team for themes) to make that decision.