Probably what should happen is that all rejected posts receive a message saying that if they want to appeal, to forward the post to an alias, which goes to all the moderators plus me. Also good would be for all rejected posts to go separately to all the moderators plus me, thus inducing some peer pressure for moderators to do the right thing.
That sounds like a reasonable alternative.
Given the dissent on the question, are we or aren't we going to moderate?
Regards,
Erik