On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:20 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:

> General consensus (on this mailing list and at the RFC) seems to be that
> we can certainly encourage stronger passwords, but we should not require
> stronger passwords for standard accounts. Accounts with escalated
> privileges (admin, checkuser, etc.) should likely be treated differently.
>

That does not seem to be the consensus to me. I see several people with
expertise in this area (Chris Steipp, Ryan Lane, others) recommending that
this is the least we should do. I think we should leave determining
consensus up to the people who will close the RFC.
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