Maybe I just havent hit that point in my life yet, but I will never understand "Troll's Remorse," at least not to the degree that so many of these people seem to embrace it with. You see it all over, not just NG.
Wow, you made stupid edgy shit in your 20s that made people laugh. Clearly you are the only person who has, or ever will, do stupid shit in their formative years.
I can empathize with people who want to move on, or hell, even cringe at some of the stuff they've done. That's human, that's natural. It's the endless self-flagellation and insistence on purification and over-correcting that I just cannot fucking stand. The constant apologies, whining, or destruction of your old self because it no longer fits into the cultural zeitgeist you could have never foreseen 10-20 years into the future.
It's lying to yourself at best. Historical revisionism at worst.