This person has rightly made amends for causing unwarranted forum drama and should be thanked for it.
Doesn't mean they should get a cookie. If they had done the right thing in the first place, they wouldn't be getting a reward
Most people lurking in these forums have severely inflated egos even if they obviously made a mistake they would never admit to it. In the best case scenario, they would give some lame excuse as to why they were wrong.
This man owned up to his mistake, made no excuses, so I'm giving him KARMA.