He was in no way violating the forum rules with his post, if anyone else would have posted it there would have been no action taken. This forum allows the moderators to toggle their 'moderator flag' for the sole reason of allowing them to act as a moderator or as a regular forum-goer. Posts of that nature would never be accepted if he had been using his moderator tag simply because moderators are meant to repair or end a conversation and not continue it.