I didn't even report his post. It was deleted because someone else reported it and it did break forum rule 1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads.

Idiot trolls don't matter to me but they do spoil everyone else's enjoyment of the forum.

While discussing moderation in a thread not about moderation is usually off-topic, it isn't automatically off-topic. Whether it's off-topic depends on the context - someone complaining that "X thing is moderated and shouldn't be handled by the community" isn't necessarily off-topic in a Reputation thread about thing X but someone posting a complaint about his / her posts being deleted in a non-Meta thread they were deleted from is usually off-topic. Context is also massively important when it comes to off-topic content as well - a throwaway line about moderation in a massive post that is completely on topic doesn't always warrant deletion or changes.~