Hurr hurr vegans are an easy target, I get it. In fact, I enjoy making fun of them as much as anyone else.
It's actually blowing my mind that so many people actually seem completely illiterate and keep bringing up the vegan thing instead of looking at the real issue: LW mods admins doing whatever they want, then changing the rules to justify their behavior, then today releasing a nothingburger statement patting themselves on the back about the whole thing.
I get that they don't want to fire someone over a one time issue, but maybe tell the guy to stfu and just work on coding things instead of interacting with the community?
As someone who has fucked up similarly before in a different context, both of those things happened. I got put in my place, we agreed I was going to adjust my attitude, ate my warning, and the outward conversation was that the problem was resolved and we'd work on being better in the future.