User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why We Don't Unblock You/@comment-26258387-20150930201223/@comment-5650583-20151002153053

That's the thing. New people generally start out neutral on my "respect/disrespect" scale, and their actions determine what I think of them after that. If a user is contributing quality edits and not causing trouble on the wiki, I will naturally respect them more than I would a troll or vandal. My respect is difficult to gain, but easy to lose.