Raider, it's not in my position or ANYONE's position at all to tell you who you should and should not recruit. I respect that and I know you have your reasons for not recruiting other mappers or members, also other reasons for recruiting newer members.
Here is the situation from our side, when I say OUR side I don't refer to CMM but I refer to ''everyone else who has made a map for UrT''
Along comes this fellow, who keenly looks up to mappers like myself. Shows an eagerness to learn and the willingness to focus everything he's got yet in the process he pushes every mapper aside, stepping over them all. He will reject any feedback from anyone, until he asks someone 'superior' to his mapping skill (in which case sometimes claimed the idea was his). He takes critisizm personally unless it's once again from someone he respects. Overall he is out for himself and he wouldn't have been #1 on my list (nothing personal Mike)
Another thing is his personal image. Remember how I used to be a moderator on the UrT forums for just the mapping section, and my mod powers were stripped because you decided I wasn't mature enough. In all fairness, I wasn't acting professional. Infact I was just a casual person. I have no problem with that. But Majki has a very rude reputation, I could bring up chat log after chat log on comments and remarks he makes about other mappers. Like a famous one amongst mappers is that ''all of the people on CMM have no skill'' (when he was just beginning to learn to map)
I'm sure there are many chat logs people can bring up to show you the extend of some of his rants. He has also had several rants about FS which you most probably haven't seen.
Also, I'm even sure if you know why he got banned from here? Or the full story even...
Far as I know, Majki left CMM because one or two of the leaders of CMM were extremely offensive towards him, saying his map sucks sh*t, he sucks,etc. Now maybe Majki had insensitively critiqued Johnny English's map and that's why he was responded to that way
It goes nothing like that.
Anyway, here on CMM we live and breathe without a professional image, we don't really have a reputation to hold.. We each have our own personal reputations but we're not an organization like you who need to withhold a professional reputation for a community who plays your game.
As you can see by the combined opinions of people here on CMM the newest inclusion to your Development team comes to a surprise, we clearly think there are a few other mappers or maps more deserving. But that then goes back to YOU not wanting to include them into the team.
I'm happy for Mike, he's my friend. I'm honoured to be
THAT person who helped him so much and inspire him. I'm glad it was me who pretty much got him
inspired to work on poland in the first place, and that I also kept him going when he was going to stop several times!
I sincerely hope Mike brings out the best of the opportunity he has.
In the end Raider, everyone knows the
history between Me and FS. If I hadn't of been untrustworthy when I was younger, I know by now I most probably would have been a Dev. But it's not like I hold against you or anything...
EDIT:
I agree with Rylius too, CMM cannot be strictly to blame for the relationship between CMM and FS.
Heck even when I asked if my competitions could be publicized on the front page so we could attract more attention and try get more players to try out mapping! I did not get a reply. FS don't realize(or they do but the assistance they offer goes unseen) how much these little competition influence people into mapping or at least have greatly benefited from it! I started mapping because of a mapping competition (and who knows how many other people I've inspired to start mapping)
-> Majki was inspired by a competition(with some assistance)
-> HappyDay, one of the rising stars in mapping, he has also inspired other people to begin mapping (jump maps too!) and consistently produces good maps
-> Most of the mappers here on CMM actually joined in with the competition and benefited greatly
You saw for yourself the maps that actually come out of these competitions are actually really good maps.