I did the same as @Dennari43 and @Valgys , as soon as I first joined the server, about 7 months ago, I walked around spawn and tried to figure out what was happening. Had I spawned in an rtp, I would've thought there wasn't a spawn, and I would have quit immediately. I probably would have thought that the owner of the server hacked somehow to get the server so many votes! It would have been like he made the server like 2 days ago. To me, not knowing that there is a lobby area makes me think the server is...
stupid
Anyways, this is my opinion on the topic, hope this helps!