> I had an app removed when I sent an update because I used 5 consecutives exclamation marks on the store listing... (!!!!!) it was there since the first publishing, but some picky google employee wanted to show how he excel at his job
If you hosted a party and someone took a shit in your house somewhere you didn't find until way later, does that make it okay?
Or maybe that rule didn't exist before because there were some assumptions made about basic human decency and they didn't think that rule was necessary, until someone came along and proved them wrong.
I don't see why 5 consecutive exclamation marks is indecent but I see it can get interprete as a break of their meta data policy. Sometimes to keep surviving all their policies and space for interpretation, you must know how to work around. Even google itself cant keep up with their own policies. But each developer should do as it feels right and every platform will keep creating ways to preserve themselves from every new trick humans naturally play. I didnt make thousands of dollars from games by following every little policy presented, and I have seen dozens of times the very own platform ignoring their own rules, cause they make money too.