On 21/04/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/20/07, Info Control <infodmz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> What legitimate reason could there be for EVER
using the Check user tool
> beside presented evidence of sockpuppetry?
I can think of one. That supposedly
"retired" admin who recently
deleted the main page and blocked a whole bunch of account including
Jimbo, a checkuser could possibly be used to tell if his account had
been hacked into or if he himself just went bat shit crazy.
Vandal/troll accounts are frequently checked. It's helped root out
many nests of 0wnz0r3d server boxes, for instance, or to establish
that a given vandal is an already-known problem vandal.
Being checked is not a privacy violation unless and until information
is revealed in a way that's a privacy violation.
Wikipedia is not an anonymising service, and anyone who thinks it can
or should be treated as one is simply being foolish.
- d.