It could have been due to peer pressure, or to a desire to see their comm succeed that was greater than their a-holishness over the issue--it didn't have to mean that they were ignorant of what they'd done and were sorry (or, at least, one of them was) when they learned. I'm glad I know more of the inner workings of what happened, there, and what goes on in the mods minds; I'd rather be informed than not, and if I'm going to judge, I'd rather have a stronger basis for that judgment than want I think might have been going on. Because people make mistakes when they don't understand what's going on in other people's heads.