Forums that make you add capital letters and numbers to your passwords

DonZabu

Or, even worse, forums that have these requirements, but only tells you about them after you've entered a password that doesn't fit the criteria.

All I want is to register to your forum and get on with my life, and if my account gets broken into because of a crappy password, that's my business.

Ponicalica

Besides, it isn't that effective.  If they wanted to be effective, there'd be a minimum length.  And if there's a maximum, don't use that site unless you absolutely have to or don't care about getting hacked, because they're probably storing passwords in plaintext, the bozos.

DonZabu

Yeah, it has an 8-character minimum, too. But again, it didn't tell me until I'd already tried to register with a shorter password.

Ponicalica

8 characters is nothing.

Gelzo

^Ha ha, I see what you did there.

Ponicalica

I didn't do anything there intentionally, though.

glennmagusharvey

"nothing."

Anyway, I haven't usually seen forums require numbers and letters or whatnot.  However, I have seen things things like company human resources sites and standardized testing sites do this.