If I am allowed to add my humble opinion, I think you guys just take too seriously the map rating / approval vote.
1-Warcraft is a game; even if it is a good game, it is a game only. You should always remember this thing before using the nuke bomb on a mapmaker who does a bad map or on a reviewer preferring to read the description and saying "NO BB CODE VOTE FOR REJECTION" whereas the map is good.
2-Only members of THW take care about the rate. Who are members of the THW? They are mapmakers, modelists, texturers, etc, but rarely pure players.
And, what you can see, if that most maps are not necessary downloaded from THW. I could take the example of my 3 maps (Stars, 300 Blast Them, and Restricted Complex 601).
For the 2 first, I already get a host-bot to host them. I stopped the bots around 6K games for each map when I stopped to host these 2 maps. On THW, I'm far to get this score. 300 Blast them is really bad rated, but approved by the moderator. So I do not care about the rate. The map was played online, so why would I take care of a score based on nothing but a general feeling with 10 minutes test?
What I mean is that you should really just take care of the moderation approval, and not of the rate, not of the download amount, not of the mini-reviewers opinions.
In other words: fucks the rate. On THW, just take care of the moderators (the real moderators, not fake reviewers).
3-Since a map is rarely "good" or "bad", depending on what the players like to play, just take care of the advices / constructive criticisms. I take an example: I hate Dota, for me, it's a "bad map". On THW, I would have rated it 2/5. And? Hundred thousands players play this game, so, it may be a good map after all. The rating of a map is only due to the feeling of a player, so it should really not be so important.
4-And, once again, reviewers and rated people there are all map makers. Or, in the end, the important thing is to get your map played. Nothing more. And, of course, to enjoy make a map. I really hate the arguments like "your map took 24 hours to be made, it's bad". If the map is enough fun to provide good games on Bnet, why would you say it is a bad map? Never forget you buys are NOT representative of what players like. You are just representative of what mapmakers like. And since the % of mapmakers for the global player amount seems really low...Just be gentlemen, not angry people / flamers.
To conclude:
Barathrum, just do not care about the rate. You try to act like a moderator whereas you rarely write good comments / way to improve the map. You just take care of the rules. No BB Code = map refused (even if I caricature a bit). You are even not a moderator. Then, you place yourself into the situation where you make people angry. In other words, you place yourself into a situation where you will be hatred. This is only because you get no more legitimacy than other members of THW to judge the work of other people. Then, it's logic (even if it is stupid) than your victims strike back against yourself.
So: just do not care. If your map is played on Bnet, there, it means your map is good /and/ or suit the demand of the players. No more.
