No, we decided to try something new. We didn't take up a new moderating stance, and it was never our intention to make it a policy. Given the amount of push-back this received, I'll be writing a meta tonight.
Sometimes, it's better to try stuff instead of putting it on meta and not seeing anything happen at all.... :/ I do believe that you have a point, we received more negative feedback on that attempt.
I do however am still of the opinion that something needs to be done to get the voting culture going again and that we have a problem here > More to follow in the meta.