@E. Olsen: Your suggestion would still potentially expose players to the types of servers which have been deemed as cancerous by Valve. It is akin to saying, “Oh hey! We see you’ve played five hours of TF2, now we’re going to throw you out into the wilderness with only this wooden mallet to defend yourself with! You might find a bad server or two, but at least you can blacklist them AFTER the event!” – This is what you’re essentially saying. Right now, Valve doesn’t have that problem. Why? Because Valve basically hid the toxic servers along with all other community servers behind a configuration option.
If you want to change that, you need to work on their terms, their standards. Their standard is that it is completely unacceptable to potentially have players dropping into servers which provide false information, abusive donator benefits and the like. Thus, if you want Quickplay to change, you need to offer them a solution that offers the same level of effective protection that is currently offered to players both new and old. That is, “Providing you don’t go screwing with options you don’t understand the ramifications of, you’re guaranteed to have a Valve approved experience.” Unfortunately, the solution of dropping players into the community pool after X number of hours does nothing to address the standard of behaviour exhibited by some community servers. Rather, all it does is give new players a short reprieve prior to being shunted out of what Valve consider to be the “Garden of Eden” – that being, official servers. I don't necessarily agree with that description, but still, it is what it is.
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