I applaud the removal of the moderator who was maliciously altering posts. In the thread, the head moderator's behavior had the appearance of covering for the moderator in question because they suggested that the poster whose words had been altered might have actually posted the altered words by mistake. We know that this is not what happened because that poster had copy pasted the poem from their own website where it did not contain the altered words.

Because of the way it was handled, it left the impression that moderators would not be removed for that kind of behavior. Personally, I think it would have been very beneficial to have made a statement in the thread that such behavior by moderators is not tolerated and that the situation had been corrected. The appearance of condoning behavior that is against the rules has the effect of encouraging behavior that is in violation of the rules.

In one of the websites for which I am the admin, one of the moderators did something similar. Our head moderator informed that person publicly that she would not tolerate such behavior and would remove that moderator if he ever did anything like that again. He apologized publicly for what he had done, and he never did anything like that again. And because the head moderator addressed it publicly, the other members, who were quite alarmed by this behavior, felt better for knowing what to expect and knowing that such behavior would not be tolerated.

I will find the recent one and send it privately. I tried to call but there was no answer. I will try again tomorrow.