If a person deserves respect - they deserve it when they are alive.
When they are dead, the concept of deserving respect is moot (depending on beliefs and such).
The concept of a message board on the internet respecting somebody is something akin to "delusions of grandeur". On a message board, you give respect if the person wasn't overly a cnut, because actually, your respect is worthless and therefore, not really worth obsessing over. They will never know of your text based respect. You are making an empty gesture.
I give respect to Derek because I can kind of see that he was of limited intellect and most of the vile stuff he wrote was his misguided idea of trying to be visceral, in the face of superior opponents.
But there's no way I would begrudge the voodoo master from his moment in the sun.
Derek wrote vile things to people and if they took them literally, there's no coming back from that - no respect in living or death. That I choose to shrug it off is my prerogative, not other people's.
I actually really enjoyed Derek's getbig hate video - I like him more after remembering that. I think he's bang on. I was here when he arrived and he got nothing but hate and he gave it back (which as the more pragmatic on this board will agree - is the double standard we live by - we'll be dicks, if you're a dick back, you're a fool).