wookieontheweb wrote:There was a decision recently to reset the map vote counters and only allow votes after someone has played the map.
I think the result of this is we are about to lose all but the built-in maps from ranked random.
I'm not sure of the exact criteria that makes a map unranked, but from experience at least half (probably more) will be un-ranked before they reach 200 up votes.
This will leave us with only built-in, new maps (but only for a short while) and a few from Master Yoda (and a few others). From above that's less than 150 maps and it will fall.

Up vs down votes is not good enough as a way of determining the fate of a map. Some common strategies on some maps are flawed and other strategies are much harder to counter. The map may not be unbalanced but it will feel like it when you're on the wrong path. If you revenge and crush your opponent in a similar way then your assumption is the map must be broken. That's potentially 4 down votes for a balanced map that actually requires some original thinking, something that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Don't we want more of these maps, not less?

I think we need a better way of identifying maps that are "good" and then add them to the built-in list so there is no more voting on them.