Of course, the question is "respected by whom"? And is that respect
actually worth anything? I'm seeing a lot of RfC and AN/I cases where
people weigh in with comments along the lines of "X is a highly
respected editor", implying "and therefore can do no wrong."
Meanwhile, on the "attack sites" issue we seem to have two (for lack
of a better word) camps whose members don't necessarily have a lot of
respect for each other (or maybe they do, but it isn't figuring in the
argument), but within each camp there is a lot of respect among the
members.