Yes, I'm not surprised that double-u has climbed in the ranks. He built a lot of good will here before he had his melt down and many have stood by his side out of loyalty regardless of his actions of late. Loyalty is ironic like that at times, where one who would now destroy something still gets support from those who wouldn't wish for the thing to be destroyed.

I'm hopeful that as time goes by many of you who have a sense of unease with megadrive can at a minimum set it aside and judge his new actions solely on their own merit. And ideally over time give him a chance to display he is capable of self reflection and choosing better paths.

It had to have been difficult for him to reverse himself so drastically and do so publicly. His actions since then have been conciliatory despite most often being met with hostility, some deserved and a lot not so much.

I'm not in your shoes or some of the others who were most offended, so it isn't my place to determine when or if such a thing can occur.

All I can do in my desire to see more acceptance is use myself as an example.

There have been times I've been so upset (mostly when I was younger) that my anger or fear was so great I did and said things that were an over the top response to the event(s). In hindsight I regretted my actions, and learned many times over the valuable lesson that a bell can't be unrung.

However, sometimes the bell that got rung one regrets can be replaced by a new bell if the person on the other end of that ringing is amenable to giving one another chance, even if warily at first. I can say for myself that there have been many gracious people in my life who chose not to write me off because of an action or response I made in haste, and my gratefulness was and is quite humbling for the compassion extended to myself.

I've used such dynamics from my own horror stories of life to come to an understanding that regardless of how difficult it might be, I have to try to be for others what it is my heart cries for them to be for myself. Often it is for naught, but I have to honor that desire in my own spirit and my only control in that arena is in my own approach.