I have mixed feelings about the new site update. Mod spamming, both positive and negative, has been destroyed completely, which is good. Active participation is now heavily encouraged as well. On the other hand, mods have basically been rendered useless seeing that they are no longer tied to the Karma system. Why not just get rid of them altogether, then? The update may promote spamming, which were usually prevented by fear of neg mods. Now that the threat of negs is gone, people may very well just run rampant on the forums.
We'll just need to give it time, and see how others react to it, just like the polls.
