Unfortunately these asinine password requirements occur quite often. It's basically an indication that the site itself has poor security, and they're requiring

Unfortunately these asinine password requirements occur quite often. It's basically an indication that the site itself has poor security, and they're requiring a strong password to mitigate that risk. Also, if they are storing the password in plain-text, then it doesn't really matter how many fucking special characters your users have in their passwords :) Also, users will just write down the password.