Question about the new moderation system?

I've noticed some changes in the last few weeks. I used to see avatars every night but haven't seen one in about two weeks. I have a lot of gay friends and I used to enjoy going to the GLBT category. But I got tired of the high troll traffic and all the offensive postings so I stopped going in there. I recently went back and the trolls appear to be gone or at least are removed much more quickly. I like the idea of people having to build up trust in their reporting. Hopefully this will eliminate wrongful violations by users who are just being spiteful or vindictive. Now if they'd only clean up the "Current Events" category. That's basically degenerated into a message board with people posting things about specific users and all the answerers pretty much chatting about that user.