Nobody is going to end up counting who shouldn't have. We've always awarded down when there is an issue with the leaderboard placement.
Regarding gold refunds, this is harder since we cannot determine with certainty what would have happened in the normal case of things versus what actually happened, and we want to get all the numbers first before we do anything there (so we at least have as much info as possible).
Multiple false assumptions in your post. The two moderators in question are a head engineer and a support manager, and we heard about this outside the forums from other reports but jumped in to communicate with the people here. Also no, the rest of your post is just wrong. Stop trolling.