I always thought a revolution to be typically a colony rebelling against the nation who owns it, and a civil war to be a nation splitting within itself. I am pretty sure a revolution can be considered a civil war in some cases, but not all.
In all honesty (although my opinion doesn't matter), just looking at the situation without any background information, this looks like it could have been handled in a much better way.
Doing it behind their backs does seem pretty cowardly. If you truly trying to portray mods in a good light, then demoting two mods behind their backs doesn't really help your cause at all.
He said it was fun, but currently the games aren't that impressive because they are as basic as the starting Wii games. I am gonna wait until they show something impressive that they can do with it before I spend the money on it.