User blog comment:Toby Lee Rogers/Judgements/@comment-8-20180329172608

I understand what you are saying, but sometimes first impressions are important. I don't need to know a user well to ban them if they are vandalizing - even if they think they have a good reason to vandalize. And offline, if someone is nasty or nice to me, that will naturally give me a first impression that's good or bad - even if that impression is going to change over time.

So I would say that you should be flexible and give people a chance. but that you can't ignore first impressions.