[rocannon]

I had a login at a game website called Shakes & Fidget years ago. The site itself is low-consequence. I wouldn't care if someone hacked my login. Another example is when I'm just trying some service and don't expect to use it ever again.

What would worry me is if people hack the login for a low-consequence site and then figure out that those login credentials for this user are the same everywhere: at their bank, Amazon, etc. Personally, I use different passwords at every single website, but at low-consequence websites I sometimes use less secure ones. I don't see how this is a problem (for me).

I understand why low-consequence sites do not implement schemes to force users to use stronger passwords, though. Howls of outrage, lost users, and attempts to get around it, as charDiversity says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975773