Ok - so once again I have had to do the whole password/register/re-set thing. As Mozilla got messed up I didn't expect my cookies to really work but I did expect my password to work. But somehow installing Quicktime on my computer not only zapped Mozilla but also wnet into these forums and reset my info as well. At least the logon screen kept telling me it my password was wrong - it worked fine 3 days ago. So I go to the "forgot password?" page and I get asked to answer two questions - one of which is What is the middle name of your youngest sibling? ?!?!?!?! WTF??? Come on Sony Web team - why are you screwing with people? I have *never* answered that question - I do not have, nor ever have had, a younger sibling. Thinking this was some sort of "option" I left it balnk - I got an error. So I tried again and put in "NA" and still an error came back. I am thinking to myself: "How the hell do I answer this...and who the hell is forcing me to answer this bogus question?" So I went to the "register" page thinking that for some reason my whole account was nuked and someone had re-used my name and entered in my email for a new account - of course I got the "That email has already been used..." message. So I click on the "Reset password" link and I get a page to send an email - so I again enter in my email and I get a page saying that because I had answered my questions wrong I had to send the email to myself (???) and click on the "Send email to myself" button. I do so and get an email with a link. I click on it and am taken to the reset page - and low and behold there is an option to choose two questions in case you foget your email. FIrst time I have *ever* laid eyes on this. Needless to say I did not pcik the sibling question. But having said that - I sort of felt like I was trying to get some sort of home loan.

So here is my beef - since these Forums have been redone things keep getting stupid...why is this? Who is getting paid to make it so hard for users, old and new alike, to be able to simply sign on and post here? Complaints abound around here and frankly when SoFo ran this this ship I only had to sign up once, bookmark the page, and that was it...since Sony has taken over I have had to do this crap about 5 times now - most of it in the last 12 months. And what the hell is up with adding qestions and re-setting passwords without telling the user?!?!?!? And I am sorry but one of the big "no-no's" in web design is to have un-needed steps for log-ins. Asking for user name/pass works fine for most forums. However the webteam - those who do the scripting anyway - seem to not quite have it down. This is not a freaking bank account here guys - I am logging into a forum and I do not need, nor want to, be forced to answer questions about middle names of third cousins on my great gradfather's mother's sister's side of the family. Nor do I find it helpful to do all this and than get told I have answered the questions wrong "x" amount of times so I need to email myself. (Sort of like this story here - A guy goes into a bank to get account info. The teller tells him that his name is not on the account so he can not get any account ifo, but he is more than welcome to close the account. 100% True - this was about 2 months ago this happened to someone I know)

So...waiting here for public reasoning to this maddness.