And so I hopped on and deleted all the comments on that one too. Thanks random password request!
Someone or something did that to an account I’d forgotten, too. Happened this weekend. The kicker is, that account had been permbanned with the rest of them for about a month by this time. I used that opportunity to open an appeal and clown on the admins some more for running such a dogshit platform that they can’t stop bots from password requesting banned accounts.
Me too, wtf is going on?
That sounds like an old problem that is not specific to Reddit. If your email is on any address leak from any website or is on a spammer’s list, and a site allows people to request password resets by email rather than username, someone is going to do it.
How they intend to read your email is anyone’s guess, however. I’ve gotten a few requests like this from other websites, but of course, the sites are always like “if you didn’t request this, please disregard this, and consider changing your password just in case”.
There must have been a big push on those. I had a reset attempt on a temp account I made 10 years ago.
