# Min Password Length vs Block Common Passwords

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207 "2017-03-02T04:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Potter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Potter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan_Potter)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207/3 "2017-03-02T05:06:21Z")

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Sure, but if you let people change it to 8 it seems silly for the other password security feature to then become completely useless.

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