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by stevekemp 4509 days ago
The problem with the wordpress plugin directory is similar to the Android/Apple appstores - getting discovered is hard.

There is very definitely a lot of fake reviews, and gaming, involved in most of the popular plugins. The fact that you mostly have to have a SVN repository hosted on the wordpress servers also means your source cannot be kept private - admirable, but quickly leads to cloning of novel and unique plugins.