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by dagw 3101 days ago
What if a username does exists, but isn't my username.

Imagine both 'dave' and 'davr' have an account. I'm 'dave', but I accidentally type 'davr' and my correct password. Now the site will tell me that my password is wrong. So I retype and retype my password over and over again and still can't log in, because the problem isn't the password like the error message says, but rather that I typed the wrong my username.