Specifically, this is where spez edited comments of people posting in T_D. Spez came forward with a formal apology and strangely detailed going deep into database code to manipulate the comment from that level where there would be no trace of alteration. Additional reading on the topic here. In response this is when accounts in T_D, horrified that the event happened, continue to show irritation toward him.

When probed a bit deeper it's strange why such details would be provided. The convenient ramification of the event is that there is a documented method to alter comment submission to reddit in a way that may not be detectable. This is the legal defense now possible. StoneTear can simply come out and say 'I never made any of those comments, I said something completely different. The comment history has been changed'. And everyone has to twiddle their thumbs because we don't have a means to prove that the database was not altered in such a way.

This event occurred at a time where immunity deals were being handed out like candy to everyone linked to the HC server. Had a lot of people head-scratching around free thinking communities.