It's a reputation you have built, and your future actions will be interpreted with that in mind. Just like some of will continue to remember what Microsoft has done to Linux.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Reputation is built from patterns. There was no pattern there. It was a single isolated event. And people choose to keep bringing it up.
You have to realize how painful and annoying it is to see this get brought up every time we have a post here.