Joe,
I realize that your biggest complaint is (or was) the fact that there were two maps that you and Glove didn't particularly like to play on, and you wanted the ability to vote on maps. Now it's been a couple weeks, and the two maps you guys didn't like have been removed from the rotation (this even though many other players enjoyed those maps), and we have the ability to vote and choose which map comes up next.
It may not look like much of a problem to you guys when you're playing in the evening and the servers are quiet, but during the day when the servers are running at near capacity, the map voting system is getting to be a pain in the ass. I was playing for a couple hours last Sunday and Toujane came up 5 times within an hour. I fought the urge to change the map and finally just left. About 90% of the time most of the players don't know what a map is based on the name on the voting list and just vote randomly. Others have favorites and vote for the same maps over and over again, while other players don't vote at all and will let a couple people decide what maps are played.
We have a large number of maps that are small with all weapons and nades. They quickly turn into a clusterfuck of spawn killing. Rugger changed the blimp cottage map to shotties (thanks Rugger) but it was actually one of the decent maps for all weapons and now it kind of sucks with shotties, and the other little maps are still all weapons. That wa_wa3 map seems to come up all of the time, and I win it with scores of 250+ more times than not simply by holding down my fire button and running around like a fucking idiot. Just because I win it doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see it removed or changed to shotties or pistols. It is a mindless piece of shit map that requires absolutely no skill. You don't have time to think or talk with other players, just run and gun and die. If Pete changed maps it was more than likely because one or more of those small maps were getting played a lot.
Rather than asking for aplogies, you might want to tone it down a notch and simply say thank you for putting up with this fucked up system we're dealing with at the moment (that you asked for) and doing our very best to improve for the majority of players as quickly as possible.
I agree with Pete and Bart. I'm also seeing more complaining and whining than I've ever seen before, and from people that don't normally complain about anything.