Fundamentalists in any religion are the problem . But I can ' t excuse the nonfundies when they don ' t actively condemn their fundies . By remaining silent , the average worshipers give silent assent to the more extreme fundie beliefs . <| sep |> But if we dont protect our traditions of colonization , oppression , and resource plundering they may fade away forever ! !!! i . e . why i kind of am a selfhating white person . fuck my ancestry . for . real . <| sep |> It wasn ' t until I got here that something seemed familiar <| sep |> lol . this guy . white supremacists , posing with confederete flag , makes blatant racist statements , kills 9 black people . but he is being discriminate for being white . <| sep |> The reason it would usually be assumed that they ' re storing in plain text is that most likely the password is being stored in a database under a column with a specific length . When you hash a string , so long as you use the same algorithm , you ' re always going to get the same length hash returned so you can set your database schema accordingly and not force a user to limit their password length . Another reason is that they ' re not only limiting length but also limiting characters themselves . This is usually an indicator that they ' re storing in plain text AND not following proper database security techniques and they want to avoid ' dangerous ' characters that could allow an SQL injection attack . It ' s also important to note the differences between encryption and h a s h i n g d i f f e r e n c e b e t w e e n h a s h i ngandencryptionalgorithms