[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[geni]

On 11/13/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> My cents: I think this whole checkuser shit is totally re-tarded. It's
> a grave violation of privacy. I have accounts on Wikipedia only
> because I care about my anonymousity (otherwise I would edit as an
> "anon"). I do NOT wan't someone to connect my contributions to my
> identity. Especially not someone I don't know and who identifies
> itself with a random and totally meaningless userid!
>
> Dumb dumb dumb. Stupid stupid stupid.


There are times when it is very useful to know if two or more accounts
come from the same ip. There are also times when we need to know which
ISP to send complaints to.
--
geni