Adding !vote will only help people who are used to servers with ASC (like TKK), it doesn't address everybody.  I setup map vote LA 13 earlier (but I took it off) to bring up a welcome window to set a map vote key when a player first joins.  It worked fine at setting the map vote key but if someone already has the key setup you'll end up with the desktop UT music playing in the map.  I can put it back up if needed but I need to figure out why the UT desktop music plays.

I agree about the spawn protection but only on some maps.  I think spawn protection should only be used in camping maps- where it's important because you want to spawn in and be able to find a spot without being killed.  Spawn protection on run and gun maps like Deck16 or head-to-head seams pretty useless to me because you want to spawn in and start killing people.  If we're going to have maps that campers like to play we need spawn protection.  Dropping the spawn protection to 2 seconds would not be a good idea.  People start depending on spawn protection and when it's that low people will start complaing about how useless spawn protection is.  If we want to invite campers and run and gunners on our server we need to configure spawn protection per map.