Not here to argue, but it should be pointed out that on the first page of the map factory, there is only 2 maps that are [deleted] and we really only ever saw it be a problem when someone mass-deleted their threads. So, I'm not too sure what this fragmentation is you see, as I'm not seeing it. There's a total of 6 [deleted] threads in the first 3 pages, with majority of them on page 3 (assuming you have the standard 25 threads per page). Thats not fragmentation, thats just 1 line being used up, which isn't that big of a deal.
The bumping, however, is definitely something that maybe we can look into. Hiding them from view probably would work best, so only staff get annoyed by it (and I don't think we're annoyed by it?) I'm not too sure if there is a reason to keep threads, maybe we should auto-hide them on deletion, and then make them visible again if needed. I think it's mostly to preserve links to that thread.
We can, once again review the steps on how to upload things to the downloads section.