Yes, and please don't forget about the sections: old maps and winning maps. The point is that posting good maps from 2008-2009 may lead to misunderstanding from those forum members who have already played them, and this fact may upset them greatly! I witnessed a similar situation when I posted several old maps. As for the winning maps, I think they are worth highlighting and making them publicly available. Besides, there are not many of them.
The problem of old maps should be solved by displaying the map author's nickname in the title. This will make the map identification unambiguous (those who have already played the map will be sure of this and will be able to ignore the topic).
Perhaps, it is better to simply highlight them with a font within the catalog.
This solution has another problem: highlighting with a font affects the overall appearance of the forum (and it has not been too colorful in this regard, visitors to other sections may be unhappy with the new state of the feed or the list of recent topics).
Maps by local authors who have just uploaded them can be kept at the top of the topic. (As is currently done for the latest winning maps.) Let more people see them; the authors have tried, and they should at least have the opportunity to get attention from the players for some time. The period for which they would be in such a position is debatable; in my opinion, six months.
Maps that have won any contests can be marked with badges, medals, in the field where "stars" are currently displayed.
We can use special Unicode characters in the topic title.
⍟
☚
♚
➊
Something like that.