Re: Mods. Involved
A lot has been made, relatively recently, about players requesting to be dropped from games and at what point the player should consider going to the mods. It seemed, for several weeks over the summer, to be a theme running through several different threads I was following...
Unless you, as a GM, are somehow abusing your players, the mods pretty much wash their hands of it. I think you're reading more into the statement than what is there, but, as was mentioned earlier, without knowing the full context of the discussion prior to that statement, I couldn't say for certain. However, it IS part of the SOP for leaving a game that, if you as a player request to be dropped and the GM doesn't follow through within a reasonable time (one week, as Shannara pointed out), they have the option to ask the mods to remove them from the game.
Not knowing how many days passed between when the player made their request and when this statement was made, I can only speculate...but going with a best-case scenario here (because I do that a lot), the player may have figured that you were having difficulty figuring out how to remove them from the game (not likely, I know, but we're talking best case, here). So they simply offered to ask a mod to come take care of it for you.
At any rate, my experience is, unless you are repeatedly and blatantly violating RPOL policies or TOU, the moderators step in, correct the issue, and leave you in peace. This would likely have no more lasting repercussions than being moderated for accidentally using profanity in a CC post, or going too far in referencing a specific game. Unless it becomes a chronic issue, I don't know anyone who's had the moderators somehow start holding it against them.
Pretty sure they have better things to do with their time than track isolated incidents that don't really violate any TOU or other policies...