Mod rewrites an OP and tells us to respond to the re-write, not the OP?

The text of the OP of the thread in question is:

Rune says that the question of whether it is appropriate to attempt a change is not his question.
He then notes that his explicit question is whether anyone has knowledge of any effort that has actually succeeded.

His OP is followed by legitimate posts, sly attempts to insult Rune implying that he wants to promote changing orientation, and a couple that mix those two .

Rather than start handing out Warnings for threadshitting, I declared that the topic was

I see no difference between

and

Neither one is “more PC” than the other, my paraphrase is just shorter. It is not a change to the question asked in the OP.

Subsequent to my post, the dumb misreadings of the OP and sly digs at the Original Poster stopped and the discussion went on for another day and a half.

I did not change the OP. I Moderated the discussion.