Someone explain why this isn't actively stupid?

[digitaldiscipline]

Making my previous post, I was met with this after posting:

"Your password cannot contain symbols such as @,_, (),etc. Your password is too easy to guess. It's recommended that you change it, otherwise you risk having your journal hijacked."

So... LJ wants me to back off to a purely alphanumeric password because my... symbol-containing password is too easy to guess?

What are you people, fucking idiots?

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[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Plus, a 16-character password that can't have any substring exist as any dictionary word is, logistically, all but impossible to maintain separately from all one's OTHER passwords. Ergo, it WILL be written down someplace, and is far MORE likely to be duplicated across systems.