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I'll just repost what I posted in the same thread on WoWAce:
If you believe that because you dislike the fact that the authors of DBM express support for gold selling and WoWMatrix on their own website, there exists grounds for removing DBM from public addon hosts like WoWInterface and Curse, it would logically follow that you would argue in favor of deleting all addons whose authors supported something on their own website that you felt was "bad", even if no mention of that thing was to be found anywhere in the addon itself or on its WoWI/Curse download pages.
While gold selling and WoWMatrix are things a lot of us as WoW players and addon authors dislike, where do you draw the line?
If an addon author, on his own website, displays a banner ad soliciting support for, or posts a statement expressing support for, <take your pick of abortion rights, gay marriage, militant veganism, whale hunting, PETA, NAMBLA, or baby seal clubbing>, and you believe that <insert cause here> is "bad", do you think his addons should be deleted from WoWI/Curse?
If an addon author, on his own website, displays **** ads, do you think his addons should be deleted?
If an addon author, on his own website, uses a pink color scheme, and you hate the color pink, do you think his addons should be deleted?
Another point to consider is that if you did somehow convince WoWI and Curse to stop hosting DBM, you would actually be increasing the number of people viewing the DBM website's gold selling ads and WoWMatrix supporting posts, because everyone would have to go there to get the addon. With a solidly established and ubiquitously popular addon like DBM, you're not going to kill it off by removing it from the most popular addon hosting sites.
Also, what percentage of DBM users do you think have ever visited the DBM website? What percentage do you think visit the DBM website regularly? I would guess that the majority don't even know there is a DBM website. Again, forcing all DBM users to use the DBM website would accomplish nothing but increase revenue for DBM's authors and increase exposure to gold-selling ads.
Finally, the authors of DBM don't make any money from people downloading DBM from WoWI or Curse. If anything, it would make sense for you to try to get people to only download DBM from public addon hosts, and not from the DBM website.
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