I have to disagree on the voting system, reason being is lets say your a new server starting out and have no votes yet but there are other servers that have been going for years ...... people may overlook the smaller ones and miss out on a nice server they would enjoy playing on simply because the server was new.
heres the thing, theres going to be only a few select ways the server list is going to look, alphabetic order, in which case, your server name will have to start with one of the first couple letters to really be seen, by average/max/current online players, in which case, they will be over looked anyways, or be listed by first come first serve register, in which case, again a new server will be over looked if its not registered soon enough....
with the massive amount of "newbie" servers that come up and drop each day, i understand everyone deserves a chance to have their ability to make a server shine, but ive been with the RunUO community back when UOGateway was in its prime, (with Mr Fixit and the gang if you recall them, not the current UOGateway) and weeding through the endless crap, just to find a decent server gets annoying, so me personally, and ofcourse, i maybe alone in this, i enjoy a system that allows the good servers to shine.... either way, there is always going to be a flaw in listings that wont properly allow new servers to get out there, its why you shouldnt solely rely on just this service.
either way just my 2 cents, merely defending my suggestion