# Hamish and his password problems - Mods, help **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 5, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191 "2000-08-05T02:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/1 "2000-08-05T02:25:14Z")
I’m posting this for Hamish. He’s been trying to post all afternoon, and the board won’t accept his password. He’s tried it twenty or more times over the last six hours, retyping it, copying and pasting it, everything, but it won’t accept it, saying it’s the wrong password. Can you help? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/2 "2000-08-05T15:57:07Z")
Send **Tuba** an e-mail. It did that to me, too, a while ago. I think it has something to do with sunspot activity. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/3 "2000-08-05T18:58:13Z")
I bet Hamish’s password is too long; I suspect when he tries to sign in, it truncates. Please have him send me email and let’s fix that, okay? your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/4 "2000-08-05T22:32:24Z")
this is actually matt\_mcl using Hamish’s account, testing it. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/5 "2000-08-10T21:19:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamish \* > \*\*this is actually matt\_mcl using Hamish’s account, testing it. \*\* **A-HA!!!** Troll!   Sockpuppet!!     Goat Felching Moloster!       DNFTT!         Gottim’!! **HEY EVERYBODY!! I FOUND THE SOCKPUPPET!!!** _:: Dogpile on **matt\_mcl**!::_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/6 "2000-08-10T22:13:52Z")
sdimbert - I don’t think you get credit if he announces what he’s doing before you spot it. The best we can do is credit you with an assist. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/7 "2000-08-11T08:07:37Z")
_picks up trout_ _slap_ _slap_ _slap_ _slap_ _slap_ _slap_ That’s enough of your foolishness, young man. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamish-and-his-password-problems-mods-help/28191/8 "2000-08-11T10:30:34Z")
WSFFAROFLMFAO!! (Wiping Scales From Face And Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Off!)