I posted an
update in this thread to let you know that the map was removed from the Whitelist and the reasoning.
Unfortunately, I did not have time to hunt down the developers of those maps to send each of them a PM to explain why their map was removed, but there was some sort of notification. I understand the desire to have a PM sent to the developers of any map that's being removed, but I am not just the Whitelist master at Tripwire, I am also the Senior Programmer and I have a full schedule of programming tasks.
My job description does not include all the extra stuff that I do with the Whitelist, including posting updates about changes to the Whitelist. Tripwire has only requested that I keep the Whitelist up-to-date, but I take the extra effort to notify everyone of what's going on because I love this game and the community surrounding it.
So, I'm sorry that a PM is not sent to every map developer to notify them of their map being removed, but there is not always time for me to do that and manage to get my programming tasks done on time without working more than the 50 hours that we already work.
Sadly, that's just the way things are. I hope After-Hourz will not take this to mean that Tripwire wronged you in anyway, we are trying the best that we can, but we only have a limited amount of resources.