User blog comment:Ironbert/If we had censorships for Passwords in chat/@comment-7114405-20151208172026/@comment-7114405-20151211180109

Exactly, people shouldn't be protected from their own stupidity and/or foolishness, as it will ultimately do more harm than good in the long run, on top of setting a precedent that it is perfectly acceptable to make such glaring errors of judgement.

There's also the issue of actually implementing something like this, would there be censoring for every account's password on Wikia or just those in the chat at the time? The former would provide issues in that a potentially common phrase that just so happens to a password for an account made sometime in 2008 by a couple of drunk college students for a bit of a laugh that was never actually used would be censored; the latter would provide issues in that if someone's password was written into the chat as part of a completely unrelated sentence, then it wouldn't be hard to decipher the password based on said sentence, so if there was only 10 people in the chat at the time, that's only 9 potentially accounts to hack into (you can't hack into your own account, obviously).

Then there would also be the issue of Wikia actually implementing this correctly, which, going by Wikia's track record for this sort of thing, will most likely end up with the result that every word is censored because at least one of those letters is used in someone's password, or something along those lines...