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RE: Is There A Serious Password Problem On Steemit?
I have never seen a password problem on this site that wasn't the person mis-entering it. Of course, this generates a huge long password string of unintelligible letters.
There is the off chance that someone has gotten ahold of your password, and has changed it for future use. Look for activity on your account that is not you.
To check if your entering your password correctly, type it into notepad, so you can see it, and then copy/paste it into the steemit login.
Yes, this is exactly what I do.
When I initially got a password on Steemit assigned to me in August 2016, I copied and pasted it into a notepad file on a usb. Copying that same password as it was then does not work on other computers when I attempt to log in. So I'm rather confused about the issue. I'm hearing this from a lot of people. No spaces, no numbers or letters wrong.
I meant using notepad to make sure you had no numbers or letters wrong.
As, I have found, from past experience, that I missed upper/lower case, and once had caps-lock on.
Yeah, but this shouldn't happen when you copy and paste the exact password given when you get an account. Cap locks shouldn't be affecting copying and pasting.
I'm telling you, I've repeatedly tried the very thing that I copied and pasted into a drive on notepad. I've copied and pasted this password back into Steemit in the past to sign in on other computers and it worked but now it's not working at all.
Lots of people are reporting this exact problem, I'm far from the only one. It's the number one issue I'm asked about when promoting Steemit everywhere.
I did the same. I have both a paper copy and a USB I never use for other things storing the password. I figured it was too probable that I would make a small error on the password and screw myself which is why I also have the USB.
I actually have had an issue on a private email account I locked myself out of where I had the password written down but it didn't work. It isn't cool being locked out of something you can't recover.