This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

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[–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Also if they store a copy of that email they're effectively storing the password in plaintext even if they e properly made a salty hash brown for the database.

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