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His edit wasn't rejected by mods. It was rejected by other users who have the power to review edits. A mod has a specific meaning within SE sites.

If he'd raised an issue on meta, I'm sure a real mod would have sorted this out, or he could have just used the same account to make this edit.

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s/moderators/folks with lots of imaginary internet points enabling a restricted subset of the moderating powers available on SO/

You must also know about meta. I looked for ways to contact the mods in the UI and didn't find any. I suppose it's in the FAQ, but I didn't think about it at the time.

So "flag for moderator attention" means what to you?

It is nowhere to be seen. I'm logged out.

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