The average player wouldn't have a bizzare vendetta against community servers. It takes a dedicated troll to sign up for a server mailing list and spam insults towards anyone that is pro-community. And as we have seen from those such as dan "needaxeo" their motivations are probably not the well-being of the average player.
As a player I do not see what the issue with ads are. Valve blocked them for anyone connecting through quickplay and if I am not connecting through quickplay and I cannot tolerate it at all, then I disable the MOTD. If you are a community owner, why do you care that other servers have ads? There are only 2 possible reasons I can see. 1. You think that they are the reason for the quickplay change. 2. You want Valve to kill off your competition for you especially when you see your own servers dying while people like Andrew have a top server with ads. #1 has been debunked over and over and over again. Ads were already 100% blocked for quickplay players for a long time. The real cause was probably to keep pay2win servers from skirting the quickplay rules. Years before ads existed, people were abusing fake players to get money through premium status. Ads did not cause this. So that leaves #2. Which is really sad because instead of trying to fix the problem for all communities, people here keep spamming the mailing list with something that Valve has already considered solved.
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