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Someone changed the password on the Username public throwaway account. It's a shame a troll finally got to it after several years.
It's worth contacting a moderator and seeing whether they can do anything about it.
Even if they set the password it's a nature of a public account that the PW can always be set differently.
How about make the password reset automatically every X minutes ?
I actually meant to ask at some point whether the Username account would have protection against people changing passwords willy-nilly, but I didn't because, you know... information hazards and all that. Didn't want to give people the idea. But now that it's happened, I suppose I could ask retrospectively: how come nobody ensured some protection against that?
Because in general a forum that's designed to allow anonymous comments would allow anonymous comments and not let people go through the hack of using a separate account for it. The account wasn't created by any moderator but simple by a using who thinks that such an account would be good to have.
While being in infohazard territory: It's not only possible to change passwords. It's also possible to delete accounts.
Then nuke the account and recreate it with the old password.
I always assumed that was just one person. I feel like someone died. (Not really. But, how was I supposed to know it was an open account?)
The beauty of the account laid in the fact that it was not publicized, so only people who were long-time lurkers would know about it.
Far out, that was an excellent account and several people had clearly used it to make important contributions.
It would be nice if there was a way to memorialize the posts or something externally. Or, perhaps the moderators could implement an 'official' throw-away to protect against this.
I have been a beneficiary of comments from the Username account and believe it does...or did a true service to the community. Thank you for taking it upon yourself to report this and making a new account.
While I had no objection to the existence of the account and in fact used it several times myself, it was a bit annoying to me that someone was using it as his personal account rather than bothering to create his own.