As it stands right now, he seems to have recovered all that and much more, between the apology article, his voted-up comments on it, and people gradually undoin

As it stands right now, he seems to have recovered all that and much more, between the apology article, his voted-up comments on it, and people gradually undoing the massive downmods on the original comments. The apology has been modded higher than the original article. From a strictly theoretic standpoint, it seems the karma system rewards drama... and it also rewards posting controversial statements as separate articles rather than as comments, because articles can't get downmodded. As interesting as the whole incident has been, I'm hoping we don't see many similar ones, since I don't think it really added much to the quality of discussion.