Asking not as a challenge, but as a request for information; why did you retract? What reasons justify your retraction? I'm not trying to be dense (that just comes naturally:-)
Cordially,
I know you did not direct the question to me, but I can hope that as an Orthodox Christian, I would be able to do as he has done. That is to hear a rebuke from a brother in Christ; and/or hear the words of a bishop or priest; and/or be moved in prayer or reading of the Holy Scriptures to uproot any seed of bitterness which is planted in my heart. We call that sin and our lifelong struggle is repentance.
When it is discovered we try to make it right. Confession and Absolution is the first step. Then, part of that may be a public retraction here - for me it may involve personal apologies and asking for forgveness to those whom I have scandalized by my intemperate and hateful speech.
fwiw