RE: Congrats viper.fox, Zero, Mew Jadester, Shakespeare, and Amt!!
An interesting thing to note is that all five new moderators seem to be able to moderate every forum...they appear in the same group as people who were already moderators in the "Forum Team" section.
If you filled out the application, you would have noticed that it asked for 1-3 forum(s) you felt you could moderate. To me, it appears that the new "application" mods will only be able to moderate a few forums. (Why else would WPM put that question on the application?) In the past, there was a user-group called "Junior Moderators", which were only able to moderate certain forums. (At least, that was case for the second re-incarnation of the group...I can't remember the specifics for the first one) Could this potentially be the third time the group is brought back? It may or may not be called "Junior Moderators" per se, but based on the reasons above I feel the group of "application moderators" will be very similar to the ex-Junior Mods.
None of the forums have a "Moderated by: X" (well, the Trading forum does, but that's been around for awhile now) where "X" is a new moderator. It also is a bit hard to believe that WPM managed to pick his interviewees, managed to interview them all, and choose to moderate them...all in just half a day after the deadline for applications.
Given everything I've said in this post, this is why I believe that these new moderators have the able to moderate any forum, which in turn means they weren't an "application moderator"....so WPM isn't joking when he says "we haven't even started yet."
[/speculation of a mad man]
In other news, congratulations to all the new moderators. Hopefully the TCG section will be vastly improved in the near future.