That idea of putting requested mods to a different section is a good one. Yeah, actually it's kind of frustrating to publish/ update a mod & then suddenly there come tons of mods from one person flooding the page & burying most mods in one go. Some people solve this mod flooding problem by reuploading, but that might be just a temporary solution by members & not all members have more free time to reupload their mods anytime they have their mod buried by tons of other mods at once. For now there isn't any effective solutions from the site yet, probably they're still working on it.

However, there might be some problems about putting a different section for requested mods. One of the problem is the difficulty in detecting & sorting which ones are requested mods & which one are not. Some or even many requested mods might miss from detection if members put several tags & the other tags are detected instead of the request tag. Even in workshop, some people just put many less-related tags just so that their mods show up on most searching methods by sorting tags (like for example, there are many skin mods in workshops that have not only character/ weapon type of tags on them but also the tags about game mode like "Coop", "Singleplayer" etc on them. Probably the staff would have hard time to make that happen accurately.

If it's for alternative solutions for mod flood by one person, actually there are some, like:
1. Allow only 2-3 mods by the same author/ uploader on main page when a member uploads many mods at once. Mods other than 2-3 on the main page will be hidden at least until mods from other authors/ uploader are piled above the first 2-3 mods. This might help other uploaders get a chance to have their mods on display on main page.
2. Other alternative solution would be giving some cooldown timer when more than 3-4 mods are uploaded at once at almost the same time. At least this could give some pause/ break time for an author/ uploader while at the same time giving other authors/ uploaders a chance to have their uploaded mods on display during the cooldown time of another uploader.

Well, actually until recently, there's a mod upload delay on the old site. The recently uploaded mods won't show up in more than 5 minutes, & even it takes much longer than it should be normally. I don't know if that's a feature or just a leftover bug on the old site, but that could be helpful in some ways, like, the mod flood is also delayed because of that.

As for the dificulty problem in searching specific mods, I also agree. Back then, it was easier to search some mods especially some survivor skin mods, at least before the mod flood problem happened. Now it's harder to find specific mods, like specific survivor skin mods (like only for some characters like Nick, Coach etc), as there are many requested mods that put all survivors at once in one mods. More specific search features might need to be implemented to overcome that search difficulty problem, like keyword exclusion by adding "-excludedkeyword" (like what you suggested last time when we had another discussion about search feature problems), or specific sort methods.

Well in short, I hope that the admin & staff could take this your idea into consideration, at it could be helpful for many members here. Or at least they could do something about mod flood problem later, because I think several crucial problems started from there.

Well, probably some other members have solved with their own solutions like reuploading a mod just as you said so they won't waste their time to put some complaints anymore. As for the rest of them, probably they either got caught by the mod flood & had their mods buried or they saw less responses came from members here compared to workshop so they stopped putting some mods here. Even many frustrating maps with tons of unreasonable death traps or tank traps get some comments there. One of the famous ones like Lt. Rocky might have similar thoughts, like probably he saw that workshop still had more active responses from people so he stayed in workshop, & probably some other thoughts like their mods not getting noticed here, just as you said.

Probably it would take some time so that more people will pay a visit to gamemaps just like the old time. But before that happens, some serious problems like the mod flood from one person & the difficulty in using search feature to find specific items or exclude some keywords might need to be solved first, I think. The mod flood could affect people who contribute in putting some of their mods here & visitors can relate with that, like the  less people putting some mods, the less visitors would pay a visit. & visitors who can't search the items they're looking for because there's no specific search or sorting method might get tired after scrolling several times & going to several pages of search results only to find mods from one person (like, there's no "only" things in workshop when searching items, if you know what I meant).

Well, I hope that the admin & staff could take some consideration after reading this discussion, as it's a good thing to still have some members showing their care through worrying & complaining about some problems.

Sounds good to me. I have been wondering if there's a mod that allows laser sights from the starting point of a campaign. 

@NonnyFox:
It's not difficult to give laser sight in the beginning of chapter. The laser sight bonus can be triggered when a survivor leaves saferoom & it only needs simple scripts to make it. It's also possible to make it so that each time a survivor picks any primary gun, laser sight will be added to the gun.

Btw if you want to make some requests, probably you can add a new topic about your requests here on discussion section, for now. I hope that next time there would be a new section special for requested mods or "request" official tag, so that people can search requested mods in one place.