As of this moment, my respect matches my user title. I chose +1058 as a random amount that I wouldn't reach for a few weeks, then suddenly managed to gain wads of respect. I'm not entirely sure what I did, although I suspect the fan card contest helped.
Edit: Aaaand it's gone.
As an aside I just looked at my user stats. Almost 10% of the posts in non-mafia games were made by me. That's kind of scary.