I think what really worries me is that with all the new mods and the new stance, very little seems to have gone into the vetting process. Last night we had one mod post a long, barely literate, ego inspired set of rules in a forum that has NEVER needed moderation. We now have 4 mods for a sub forum of very polite, very friendly people.
Another mod, and you know this one since you were in IRC as much as me, bragged constantly about how he performs DDOS attacks for fun and flooded IRC with spam before logging off in a huff.
These are the people that will be making the judgement calls? I can easily see the cure being many times worse than the disease in this case.
All I can suggest is that any concerns be directed to SmokeyJoe via PM. I can't stress that enough... via PM.