Mrs. Krabapple, my worm crawled inside my mouth and I ate it. Can I have another?

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I fucked up my password somehow. And since my email address in my profile has a despamming herring in it, I can't send myself a new password.

Can someone reset it somehow? (Or fix my email address in my profile..?)

Thanks!

― Dave225 can't find his password, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with that...

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Mrs. Hoover

― gear (gear), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Hoover, right. Cheersthanksalot.

― Dave225 can't find his password, Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I don't if this was from a recent code change, but after reregistering twice and fucking up those passwords too, the mods may want to issue an admin fatwa that changing your email address will automatically cause a new password to be generated, so you better be goddamned sure you have a valid email address in there if you go changing it. I can forsee this problem coming up again. With some frequency.

Or, I don't know, maybe everyone else already knew that.

― Dave225 can't find his password, Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I think the unofficial admin response to this issue is "go eat a bag of dicks".

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Your Name

NOTE: Changing your email address(es) will cause your password to be reset and mailed to the new address (or private address if specified). Don't fuck this up!
Your Email Address

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

aw darn, it didn't do the little input boxes. Anyway, I don't know how much more clear we can make it than the above!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

your best recourse is to make yourself a new account with a new email address.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I can forsee this problem coming up again. With some frequency.

HA HA HA

your best recourse is to make yourself a new account with a new email address.

Is Dave226 taken?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Dave. Those little /// marks out by my name aren't just for show. In other words, you ain't the first.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I don't know how much more clear we can make it than the above!

Psshh. Add sound!

― dave225.1a, Friday, 29 July 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

haha great new username

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 29 July 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Tip: if your username has multiple words, you can make a new one by putting extra spaces in. They'll make your login name different as far as the code is concerned, but they won't show up on screen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

haha what a dick!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Who, me?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

or me?

― ForestPines (eman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

See, if you take *all* the spaces out it's obvious.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

― Forest Pines (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

That's brilliant!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Can we test this with someone else's username now, please? ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

And, now that I've let everyone else in on this, maybe someone should consider a patch so that spaces in login names, at least, are rendered to the browser as  . Otherwise it's an obvious way to masquerade as somebody else.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

does this work?

― Leon C. (slutsky), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

there ya go.

― Ned Raggett (slutsky), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. This seems like something that needs to be fixed.

― shine headlights on me (Dan Perry), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I agree with, er, Dan Perry.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I shouldn't have said anything - fixing this for the Full Name field will probably break my account, because I cocked up when trying to register it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Bloody fucking hell I thought this was fixed years ago. Or maybe it was just fixed for those not logged in and the settings page needs a trim as well.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

ILX Identity Theft

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

never forget 10/24

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I got an email today from ILX, because someone tried to register a varient of my username. But put my email address in. Duh.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it was an alternate you!

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

You tried to steal your own identity.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

there's a way to perform identity theft on people whose usernames don't have spaces too.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Can a moderator please change the title of this thread to "Miss Hoover ...." ? It's really starting to bug me that I used the wrong name.

Or do I need to start a new thread to request that?

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Yes, ken, I noticed.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

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