Abusing quickplay is the dumbest idea I ever heard. The entire point of these complaints is that almost no one is using community quickplay because the UI is so bad and skewed in favor of official servers.
Since everyone else is putting forth their own solutions and theories, I will repeat mine. Default to community servers after 1 hour of gameplay. After 1 hour new players should know how vanilla TF2 is and be able to find a proper community server. This is not about the complete distrust in community servers for all players because they would not have bothered to add a community servers option. \ This is not about ads because they were already completely blocked from people joining through quickplay long before the official servers change. Short of removing community servers completely or charging for a hosting license, someone will always have something to complain about. Everything is a trade-off and having community servers is better than idiot-proofing the game for the whiners who can't even figure out how to use the server browser.
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