I am against this. I commented about my issues with HEROPRESS (see article on WPTavern) being used to "promote" the "standard" WordPressers over smaller ones.

What's to stop HeroPress from ignoring anyone who criticises them?

Change HeroPress to anyone else you want in the community.

If I think your plugin/theme/presentation/product/etc...has some issues, I will tell you about those issues and I will tell you options to fix those issues.

There are authors of plugins/themes/presentations/products out there, not just WordPress related, that have an ego the size of Alaska (1,717,854 km² - Source: Wikipedia) who can't handle criticism when they screw things up.

There was a PHPBB extension author who's extension had an issue, I made a thread about it, explaining what the problem I had, what other extensions, my version of phpbb I was using at the time and so forth. All with screenshots.

The author went on a tirade bitchin' and complaining. Threatened me to "black list" me. I told him go for it, then I deleted his extension, and found another one doing same and moved on.

This is sort of censorship.

I understand spamming/trolling but outside that it is censorship.

When you put a product out there, I don't care that you put it out there for free. If it's crappy product, then I will rate you a 1 star.