I can understand that this is childish and xlnqeniuz is deserving some of this backlash, but do you honestly think that he did this because their plot wasn't working? If they wanted to create controversy and make the mods look more favorable, don't you think they'd do something more subtle, and not something that would obviously not work like spamming the new queue with Paul Blart? Its obvious that none of the spam posts from /r/circlejerk would get upvoted to the front page, and a bad new queue does not make the subreddit itself worse, since the majority of people will never look at it. No, in actuality it was probably just a joke in perhaps bad taste, but I think people are blowing it out of proportion. And anyways, from what I've seen, in the past day, public opinion was favoring the mods, so its not exactly like it was a response to things not going their way.

Edit: Actually the argument that I've seen that spamming the new queue discourages people from helping out the new queue is actually a pretty solid one to make. I do think he deserves some criticism for that, but people make it out to be way more than it is, which is just a poor joke.