The new rules seem great but my biggest issue with them is that they don't address mod-related issues on the forums like the ones experienced by Spoon a while ago.
Being incredibly immature and causing mod wars, or derailing threads by criticizing what somebody has - or hasn't - done in order to undermine his credibility, should be considered harmful acts, perhaps more harmful than the typical personal attacks we're all used to blame. I mean, if the ad hominem attack is wrong, the "ad modum" attack should also be considered wrong. I don't understand why pointing a community member out as an idiot may result in a warning, but criticizing his portfolio on a thread that has nothing to do with it results in nothing. I'm not posting any examples because I know for sure that this thread would quickly derail soon afterwards and become a flame war.
Considering the particular nature of HLP, which is a site dedicated to modders with a forum, not a forum with mod stuff, "ad modum" attacks should be taken seriously.
Also, I'd like to know how HLP's IRC chat is influenced by this new set of rules.