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Greetings. This is the thread for requesting assistance with recovering a TV Tropes account for which you have forgotten the password.

Before posting here, please note that Get Known has a comprehensive set of instructions for managing your account. To summarize, password resets are limited as follows:

  • If you have an associated email address, use the Lost Password link on the login screen to request a reset email. If that doesn't work, post here.
  • If you do not have an associated email address but you are still logged in, you can register an email address and use it for recovering your password.
  • If you do not have an associated email address, and have not used your previous account since September 18, 2013, we cannot verify your ownership for technical reasons.
  • To verify ownership without an email address, and if you have used your previous account recently, you should be logged in on the same computer and/or Internet connection that you most recently edited or posted from.
  • It is not currently possible for moderators to reset your password or change your registered email address. As a last resort, you may use our contact form to send a message to "The Staff".

Thanks for your understanding.

OP edited to make this header post. —Fighteer

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 8th 2022 at 11:58:30 AM

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
GreenWillow2 Since: Nov, 2011
#652: Nov 10th 2011 at 11:47:31 AM

I am originally just Green Willow but forgot my password and can't login under that handle. Please reset the Green Willow handle password. Once its reset will I be able to input a new password immediately or would I have to login as an entirely new user?

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#653: Nov 10th 2011 at 7:02:04 PM

Green Willow has been reset. Have a go with a new password.

AnonymousUser Since: Jan, 2001
#654: Nov 10th 2011 at 8:07:40 PM

I have an account named "Photo Finish", and I forgot its password.

x86x2 Eternally dreaming... Since: Nov, 2011
Eternally dreaming...
#655: Nov 12th 2011 at 4:58:35 AM

I have an account called x86x, which I removed by accidentally clicking the Forget this site button on Firefox, which somehow erased the cookie as well and I forgot the password. Please reset the password for me.

edited 12th Nov '11 4:59:01 AM by x86x2

Someone wake me from this nightmare, I've become my darkest fear...
C0mraid from Here and there Since: Aug, 2010
#656: Nov 12th 2011 at 9:55:43 AM

Sorry. Ignore this.

edited 12th Nov '11 10:09:58 AM by C0mraid

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ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#657: Nov 12th 2011 at 11:54:01 AM

(I considered starting a new thread for this, but it seemed to lack discussion value past "agree" or "disagree", and perhaps debate on the merits of the idea. Perhaps a PM to a mod would have been more appropriate, but this at least allows others to agree or disagree. My apologies if I have chosen incorrectly in placing this here. ^^; )

As I think that others have suggested in this thread, I would like to suggest an optional email field on the "Get Known" page for the purpose of automatic password resetting. Ideally this should allow for quick resetting for users, resetting in cases in which IP address has likely changed and less work for moderators.

For background, and a little more on-topic, in my case I seem to have forgotten my password, but am currently not only on a computer other than that on which I last... er... "troped", but also on another continent, and hence my IP address is presumably different to that which is stored or me. I do have a minor edit history, I think, but it's a small one, so I'm inclined to simply call my old user-name a loss and use this (slightly more unwieldy) one.

(My old username should have been "Thaumaturge", but searches to double-check have thus far failed.)

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#658: Nov 12th 2011 at 12:37:15 PM

x86x was reset.

[up] Email verification is already being worked on. The only hits on Thaumaturge in the article history date back to May 2010; I have no way to verify the account information from those, although Eddie might.

edited 12th Nov '11 12:39:59 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#659: Nov 12th 2011 at 1:35:02 PM

Ah, fair enough - I'm glad to hear it, and thank you or letting me know. ^_^

As to my old account, I doubt that it's overmuch worth worrying about - as I said, my IP address presumably won't match (it would seem quite something if it did, I daresay!) - although I'd be happy to have it back if there were a reasonable means of checking my identity.

My Games and Asset Packs
x86x2 Eternally dreaming... Since: Nov, 2011
Eternally dreaming...
#660: Nov 12th 2011 at 1:59:17 PM

Ok, so the password is reset for my x86x account, but I can't seem to edit or go on the forums. Every time I try, it just tells me that they couldn't match my login information. Example: when I go to edit a page, it tells me I have to get known, so I log in, go to the edit page, I have to get known, etc. Also, I can only log-in by pressing Create-knowage and not the Bake a cookie button.

edited 15th Nov '11 12:57:57 PM by x86x2

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nathan1 Since: Nov, 2011
#661: Nov 12th 2011 at 6:07:06 PM

Demongodofchaos2 here, I need my password to be reset.

Emolsifur Since: Dec, 1969
#662: Nov 13th 2011 at 4:33:45 PM

Hello, I'm posting about a forgotten password. My original handle was "Emolsifier"

If it wouldn't be too much trouble would someone please reset the password. This has been driving me mad for months now.

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#663: Nov 16th 2011 at 7:57:55 PM

[up] Emolsifier has been reset. [up][up] Presuming you found it again: I'm seeing edits since that post.

emolsifier Emolsifier from CT Since: Nov, 2011
SnowyFoxes Drummer Boy from Club Room Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I know
Drummer Boy
#665: Nov 20th 2011 at 9:45:18 PM

There is some valuable information in my old PM inbox and snowfoxofdeath simply doesn't work even though it's been reset. I keep getting the "Sorry, couldn't match your login info" message.

The last battle's curtains will open on stage!
VZChurchAgain Since: Dec, 1969
#666: Nov 20th 2011 at 10:55:08 PM

I was VZ Church (maybe VZ Church), but I have also forgotten my password.

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#667: Nov 21st 2011 at 2:08:58 AM

[up][up] My reading of what Eddie said last time around is this is an unfortunate side effect of the one account per IP policy and you can't get access to the old account while maintaining the new one.

VZ Church has been reset.

SnowyFoxes Drummer Boy from Club Room Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I know
Drummer Boy
#668: Nov 21st 2011 at 8:15:51 AM

... oh. Well, the issue got sorted out anyway, so I'll just leave the matter be.

The last battle's curtains will open on stage!
BujoldFan Since: Nov, 2011
#669: Nov 29th 2011 at 5:45:13 AM

I was Dendarii Dame, but have forgotten my password.

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#670: Nov 29th 2011 at 5:53:29 AM

Dendarii Dame has been reset.

Scornthecat Since: Dec, 1969
#671: Nov 30th 2011 at 8:28:03 PM

I was Troublethecat, but either my password doesn't work for some reason or I forgot it. Could I get some help?

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#672: Nov 30th 2011 at 8:57:18 PM

Troublethecat has been the reset.

(While we are here, work titles such as Skylanders Spyros Adventure always go in italics. Please fix Bullet Hell and anywhere else in your edit history where the error crops up.)

edited 30th Nov '11 8:58:03 PM by Camacan

Scornthecat Since: Dec, 1969
#673: Nov 30th 2011 at 9:34:30 PM

It didn't work. I could log in again, but when I tried to click on edit page or go anywhere in the forums it said it couldn't match my login information.

Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#674: Nov 30th 2011 at 10:25:01 PM

Try getting unknown under your current handle first.

Scornthecat Since: Dec, 1969
#675: Dec 1st 2011 at 12:35:01 AM

I already tried that. It didn't work.


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