Announced in the Team Fortress 2 blog, Valve has begun a process that will be de-listing servers they deem as "bad." Using number of connections and player time on the server as the main factors in judgment, they calculated a score for each server and those servers in a certain block (my guess is a percentage), were removed from the master server listing system. Password-protected and low-use (less than 200 connections) servers were excluded from the search and destroy mission.
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