User blog comment:TheOneFootTallBrickWall/Your Wiki reputation/@comment-961279-20171113074750/@comment-961279-20171113081309

Another factor is the old "boy who cried wolf" fable. If you've been making poor edits on other wikis, or even on one you're a frequent visitor to, you do start to build up a bad reputation. Then if something happens where you actually do have a valid concern, no one may want to listen to you.

You spend all that time causing problems, and the one time you really need someone to listen to you, they won't. In that way, you've hurt yourself by what you did before.