I am not sure if I am posting this in the correct section but I hope someone can help me or point me in the right direction anyway.

I run several trade servers, I understand how the rankings work with the servers that have fake or idle clients and I realize they do not get ranked. However we have recently made changes to the trade servers to keep the players from idling as our trade servers are becoming more popular. Are we allowed to appeal the deranking of our trade servers if we no longer have idle clients? Is there a time limit that GT follows when deciding if a server has idle clients? Thank you for taking the time to read my question and again if I have posted this in the wrong section I apologize.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Currently all trade/achievement/idle servers are automatically deranked. There are no features for these types of servers to get around it.

I am not aware of any plans to make any exceptions to the system, since such a feature would not affect many servers.

When you do not use the maps anymore, you can simply request it to be set back into the ranking at http://www.gametracker.com/forums/forum.php?site=1&thread=75205

Ok that is fine, I was just under the impression it was solely based off of idle/fake clients from what the GT rank says when I look at the server. Not a big deal at all I just thought it was worth a shot. Thank you for your quick response.