Password changes for freeleech

People who attempt to make a profit off of torrenting are harmful to our community. One of the most common types of said person are those who hack accounts and then sell the invites on those accounts. Hackers are able to gain access to accounts with weak, old, or reused passwords. In an effort to bolster the security of our users, we are planning to implement password expiration (passwords would expire upon becoming 2 years old).

The problem with implementing password expiration is that on roll-out day, nearly 100,000 users would be affected. That number is far too high for us to deal with. So, we are asking you all to reset your passwords before we implement this new feature.

In case us asking isn't enough, we are offering some incentives, detailed below.

Over the course of the next 4 weeks (August 17 - September 14),
Each user will be awarded 10 Freeleech Tokens upon resetting their password (one time only)
If 50% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 2 day sitewide neutral leech
If 70% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 2 day sitewide freeleech
If 90% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 4 day sitewide freeleech
Invites will be closed for the duration of the event

(Note that leech disabled users will not be able to download using their Freeleech Tokens)

Please choose a unique password. A majority of compromised accounts are due to reused passwords. See this wiki for some best practices regarding password choices. Please also take this opportunity to make sure your email attached to your account is up to date.

Please help us spread the word about this event -- tell your friends, inviter, and invitees. We need your help and cooperation to successfully implement password expiration. Thank you, and good luck.

Truly hope everyone changes their passwords... this could be verrrryyyyy good.

Update from the tracker's moderator:

Update:
58 hours after announcement - 16021 passwords changed
24 hours after announcement - 10653 passwords changed

Hey all, thanks for the positive response so far. I wanted to address a few things that have come up.

If you don't have access to your email tied to your account here, and you've forgotten your password, send a Staff PM and we will help you out. If you still have access to your email, but not your password, you can recover it here: login.php?act=recover (go here after logging out)

We will definitely be giving you guys updates on the progress toward the goals, and are discussing the possibility of a progress bar.

We know the 70% goal is lofty, but we think it's possible if the users who do see this contact the users they know on the site. We have some other ideas of how to increase visibility as well.

70% is impossible since the percent of active users in the past month is only 71%. that means that almost all of the active users must change their password.