[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[Daniel Mayer]

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.

That is why it is only being used by a trusted set of users and only under
strict terms. The developers have always had the ability to see your IP. The
ArbCom needs it to check for sock puppets. 

-- mav


		
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