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Alternate Account Ownership Validation
Short, concise description of the idea
Make it possible to prove you own an account other than with an e-mail address.
Full description of the ideaThis is something I've seen come up several times on the Support Board (after submitting a similar request of my own). People have lost passwords to older
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I'm not sure what this might be, but I have to admit I've had SEVERAL email accounts in the past ten years -- and it's very easy to forget one or two. I suppose we should always set up accounts with our major emails, but let's face it, we don't always do that!
Anyway, this sounds like a good idea.
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And a password should ideally be random enough - special characters, numbers etc. - that it can't be guessed by anyone, including people who know you. If the password hint is something like "my goldfish's name, plus the first two numbers in my phone number", this essentially means that the password is practically worthless because anyone who has a phone directory and has met my [hypothetical] goldfish can just fill it in.
The problem is that people wouldn't use features like this only to gain access to their own old accounts. I realise that it is annoying if you lose an account because you didn't update the email address. But it can't be the solution to lower account security for everyone.
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1. The site defines them. This means that those questions will need to be of an extremely general nature. Even if you have several to choose from, there usually won't be one among them that can't be answered by others ( ... )
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