Publishing rules
Publish what a plugin does. Never what it was matched against.
Naming
Names are function plus character: Vocal Chain — Warm, Tight. No vendor names, no product names, no hardware model names, anywhere: not in the name, not in the tagline, not in the tags, not inside the format file. The automatic review rejects them, and so do we.
Review before listing
Every submission passes three checks: the format file validates against a known structure, every stage's evidence clears its threshold, and the banned-term scan is clean. Anything with an unknown verdict goes to a human. Approved matches are signed once, by the community, so a listing is the same binary everywhere.
Takedowns
If a rights holder tells us a listing crosses the line, it comes down while we look. We say reference and match. We never say the other words, and we do not host anything that does.