Telling me to add >6 year old maps like telstar isn't going to fix this problem. Maybe people will play it for nostalgia but then it will fade.
I don't think map age should be such a significant factor in determining if a map should be added or not, and if it is, you are the only one that (I know of that) seems to take an issue to a map's age.
surf_greatfissure was just approved to replace surf_greatwater, which is essentially a whole new map re-imagining and modernizing greatriver, which is a great improvement.
greatfissure is 11 years old and it just got approved. Telstar is about half that age and was declined with a large emphasis on the map being "too old".
It seems whoever approved greatfissure did not take an issue with its age.
If you have your reasons for declining telstar that is fine, but age alone should not be such a deciding factor.
Also, there are plenty of ANCIENT maps on rotation (10x, revolution, etc. im sure you already heard plenty about this).
I understand that they are "popular", but if these OLD maps are such TOP POPULARITY MAPS, then why avoid "old" maps?
Look through their gamebanana pages below to see their ages:
telstar (6 year old map)
https://gamebanana.com/maps/182092
greatfissure (recently approved 11 year old map)
https://gamebanana.com/maps/104065
A lot of TF2 surf maps are old and overplayed. That's why people are tired of them. But at the same time we can't make or find new maps every month.
A lot of the surf playerbase on skial is new and unexperienced. Trust me, I play on the server and see that only a few people can beat the harder maps (and those people are regulars who I know from other surf communities or elsewhere). Surf in tf2 is in a bad state right now, with every one of these other communities dead, skial is basically the last surf server with a playerbase, meaning that players who join skial and are unfamiliar with surf have absolutely no idea about these "old" maps (since there is no other surf server running them). It doesn't matter that the map itself is old, if it is new to the player, and by my experience on the server, that seems to be the majority. I say that we should experiment with these maps and see how it goes.