[WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[Fred Bauder]

His concerns certainly hit home with me. So I'm listening to him and  
taking seriously the kind of damage that can occur.

Fred

On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:48 AM, Sean Barrett wrote:

>
>
>> For more details:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking With the checkuser  
>> tool it
>> becomes so much easier.
>>
>> If you have ever met a political refugee, you know that they often  
>> are
>> very careful not to talk politics with persons they don't know.
>>
>
> Oh, very nice escalation there!  We now see that CheckUser is a  
> tool of
> political oppression, if we're allowed to use it, people will be  
> getting
> shot in the back of the head down in the basement of the Wikipedia
> server farm!