How I almost lost $230 on steemit

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When you sign up to steemit you're given a strong Fight Club style warning about your password:

Take a close look at the sixth rule: Do not tell anyone your password.

Seems obvious, right? Well, this is the rule that I accidentally broke when I pasted my steemit account password into #postintroduction on steemit.chat:

Mind blowing isn't it? What makes it worse is that I didn't even notice (multitasking is a myth ladies and gentlemen). Thankfully, my hero Hive account@pfunk came to my rescue and notified me:

I'm quite sure my heart rate went from 70bpm to 200bpm in half a second; this pretty much sums up my reaction:

Now I know that $230 isn't all that much money but I wrote some nice posts to earn that and I'm proud of it. Plus, it could have been more. Think of this post as a warning to you all and the introduction of a new password rule:

The eighth rule: Don't copy and paste your password.

Use a password manager. Don't be an idiot.