I'd stop by the forums more, but the new theme sticks out like a sore thumb at work; which is typically when I hung out here; and I haven't figured out how to change it using greasemonkey. At home, my in-game time is very intermittent (with the new lil kiddo and all .
In game, I feel like vote map made for lazy admins. Admins used to chat about maps, come in, look at the map history and try to keep the feel going good. Now its just votemap -- and it makes me feel like most of the admins need to go up to the top of this forum and read the post Mookie has stickied. Mapcycles, mapvote, etc. is for when there aren't any admins on. We should be able to do much better than that when admins are in game. Still, I've gotten chewed out for avoiding the "map vote" by certain admins; and so I generally just leave when the map is going to suck and one of them are on.