We figure the best fair / logical approach to this is provide the user base a list of tags and providing any important info to the user so they can make an educated guess if they like a server or not. We decided trying to rate good and bad servers won't do anything positive because our opinion on what is good or bad could be too flexible. It's better to just let the userbase decide and give them as much information as possible. Some users don't mind ads for example, some users hate mods or custom maps. If we tell people what is good and what isn't, no one is going to bother listening.
As far as impersonations go, we already have a plan to authenticate who actually owns a server so no tomfoolery can happen. That all said, we're still mostly doing talks and planning and etc. Anyone is free to hop in and contribute / add in their two cents, and of course we're all here too reading the emails.
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