To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.
What's the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that's the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
I maintain that mods aren’t required.
If you give the community the ability to remove/hide posts once a certain threshold is met the community can self moderate.
This is literally how society works. We self govern all the time by not cutting in line or smacking people in the face for no reason.