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I just signed up to a fresh stackoverflow account and got this "passwords must contain lowercase, uppercase and a punctuation mark" BS. It's the only site in the last 2 years+ that I've signed up with that has historic requirement.

I prefer the >12 character simple password to the random digit type and I'd have expected better from a site devoted to technical experts as Stackoverflow is.

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I hate requirements like that. My hunch is that they the SE team hasn't put a ton of thought into the account creation process because they also support OpenID. I didn't even realize that you could login to StackOverflow without using OpenID!

Just write complete sentences if you're doing your password remembering, they will easily fit all requirements and are quite easy to remember.

You only have to worry about character limits and no spaces requirements that some sites have (which are a billion times more annoying to me than requiring certain types of characters).