Moderation Enforced

This analogy is idiotic at best and warrants an obscenity warning for it's choice of material.

We're talking about posting. To the public.
Not invading your privacy.

This isn't ripping open your private mail, reading it and deciding whether or not to reseal it and send it on to one person it was meant for.

This is no different from an editor reading an article intended to mass publication to be certain it doesn't contain anything inappropriate before it goes to press.

The common point is that it makes the other users uncomfortable, they get judged before they get to say something.

The main thing i dislike about this is that it discourages discussion in the threads and leaves it to solely for bragging which isn't why most people go to the threads. (Well at least not what i go to them for.) But oh well, what can you do lol.

I'd like to bring more attention to this point, because that's exactly what this implementation will do. There's a decent sprinkling throughout of braggers who contribute nothing to the topic itself, sure, but there are several users who have great discussions. My assessment of this is that it's really going to discourage those discussions from happening since it'll simply create a barrier to entry. I may not post frequently, but if I knew a post I made was going to require moderator approval, I'd probably just keep to reading--mostly 'cause I think keeping the conversation going and maintaining continuity would be more difficult.

Is it worth it? I would agree it is. It's not the same as not creating any new rules, though.