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Well then I was talking to other people!

u just mad cuz im stylin

So that's what Max looks like?

kinda sorta yeah

Well besides the above topic (nice drawings btw), people have *** passwords. http://www.duosecurity.com/blog/entry/brief_analysis_of_the_ gawker_password_dump

There's lots of ignorance about passwords online.

A ridiculously large percent of people use passwords based off their birthday, name, or username.

A lot of people believe using lots of numbers make passwords better because "it makes them harder to remember"; yet to a computer there's 26 different letters and only 10 different number characters. All hacking programs I've seen work on a system of character sets, numerical is the easiest by far.

Many people make up difficult passwords for important accounts, but never think that the email address they link the password reset to has a terribly simple password that anyone who knows a few details about them could guess.

P.S. I made up all these facts from something I read over a year ago, and I never read your link Chase, I stopped at the word "blog" in the url.

On 12-14-2010 00:37 am Custard wrote:
There's lots of ignorance about passwords online.

A ridiculously large percent of people use passwords based off their birthday, name, or username.

A lot of people believe using lots of numbers make passwords better because "it makes them harder to remember"; yet to a computer there's 26 different letters and only 10 different number characters. All hacking programs I've seen work on a system of character sets, numerical is the easiest by far.

Many people make up difficult passwords for important accounts, but never think that the email address they link the password reset to has a terribly simple password that anyone who knows a few details about them could guess.

P.S. I made up all these facts from something I read over a year ago, and I never read your link Chase, I stopped at the word "blog" in the url.

I don't know about the Gawker sites. I guess the hackers got into a user database then.

>mfw when "Kotacku" It's Kotaku

Also people are retarded and people who use such simple passwords don't deserve accounts in the first place!

>mfw you wrote "when" after "mfw"

>mfw >mfw has always been foreign to me :(

Me too, I haven't been keeping up with internet culture.

I am resurrecting this forum because I had something to say about recent events, but nowhere else seemed right.
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Long version of my point

It's how Roger removed the off-topic conversation from the other forum. I'm not judging if it was good or bad, but perhaps some of you can understand where I'm coming from? That conversation was the most intelligent thing that would ever happen in that thread, and this same thing has happened before and left confused and irritated users behind.

I guess I'm trying to point out a double standard. The moderator policy of: "Delete everything that is off-topic, but allow forums with topics not related to extended discussions anyway" ..doesn't seem to be all that great.

It seems pretty redundant to be worrying about the integrity of forums when they have little to no potential.

We either need to allow people to use our forums like Q&A, and use the same standards as Q&A as far as moderation goes(As in, how often do you consider deleting a post in the CG Community Q&A because it's not directly related to the question?), or, we need to just plain delete these topics that aren't related to extended discussions.

Better for the everybody if we can decide what side of the line we're standing on.

Granted more people need to make new forums with some fun topics to really make things better, but I think we could still have a more positive effect by how we manage these things. Not to mention even I don't know where we stand with moderating these forums, it would help if us moderators were all on the same page with that.

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Short version of my point

> Bad forum posted
> Nothing much of interest happens in it
> Something triggers a decent debate
> Debate gets killed for being off topic

This is silly and we really should fix this at the first part or the last part guys! Delete bad forums, or allow off-topics, yeah?

I think I got it.

> Good forum posted
> Seems interesting
> Forum stays on topic

This can happen if the topic was good to begin with.

> Bad forum posted
> Nothing much of interest happens in it
> Something triggers a decent debate

This is where we can allow it to start to steer off-topic so,

> Forum becomes as interesting as "Good Forum"

forum =/= thread

if a thread is interesting, it's a good thread

A thread being a conversation in the forum?

I dunno lol

Oh, so your calling me out for saying "forum" instead of "thread", when the forum is the group of threads.

Well, I guess that's about as seriously as this is going to be taken, whatever then.

It's as confusing as saying: "just browsing this new internet called CG".

I think the problem here is that most people on the internet interpret the word "debate" as

throw as many insults at the opposing party whilst constantly trying to force your own point to be accepted as fact, constantly berating the other side and denying any arguments they may have instead of actually reinforcing yours

discuss an issue from two different viewpoints

Forums on forums to forums for forums

I'm going to make the most intelligent thread EVER.

On 08-28-2011 20:30 pm jsa wrote:
I'm going to make the most intelligent thread EVER.