[ScalyFreak]

In fairness, we don't know if the workload that was reduced was looking over actual posts, or if the moderators were drowning in reports about affiliate links? If the first come, first serve approach led to 6 reports per post or more along the lines of "I already posted that!" and the moderators had to clean out those reports, send PMs, and lock threads, that part of the work should now be gone.

EDIT:
I volunteer my time acting as a moderator in a forum community in another corner of the internet. We have a handful of users who consistently report every single post by one specific user, out of spite. They clog up our queue with invalid reports simply because they don't like this person, and make it very hard for us to deal with valid reports. Since we have a strict zero-tolerance policy on harassment we are of course taking steps to deal with this, but its a slow process, and in the mean time we have four times as much work as we did before these jerks started their personal vendetta against someone whose opinion they disagree with. If I could perma-ban them all I would, just to make our job easier.

If something similar to that was happening, I can fully understand a desire to change the policy and posting rules for affiliate links,