Well, I actually wanted to play CTF but there just weren't enough people for CTF until later and then everyone kept voting for TDM. That's the only reason why I'm assuming everyone kept voting for DM at the time. I tried to vote for other gametypes but I was always in the middle of typing something and I kept missing the chance to vote. I could always switch it in web admin but that would be abusing my admin powers.
I've been playing the Unreal based games for just as long as you, starting out in Unreal and worked my way up with each version. I actually started off playing a lot of botmatches in Unreal, I thought the bots were great, they were much better than anything I'd played in Doom, Duke3d or, Quack. Plus it was far smoother than other online mp at the time. Once I decided to go online in Unreal, I was hooked. Sure there was a time where I'd get completely destroyed by better players but I just kept playing and playing and I improved.
If you stop on by tonight, I promise that I won't vote for DM unless the player count is too low. TBH I prefer just messing around with physics or the silly carzzz than actually playing the game. I haven't really played in four weeks because where I work decided to randomly give me 40+ hour work weeks and adjusting from 12 to 40+ isn't very easy. So I'd rather slowly get the rust off instead of trying to go into it 100% because that just makes me queasy.
Just remember at FragBU, no one will talk trash to you, no one will judge you on how you do. If you're in-game and don't really want to play, most regulars, like me, will stop and we can just mess around. I'd gladly stop and not play, I'd actually prefer it.