On 4/20/07, Info Control infodmz@gmail.com wrote:
Having a public record of who ran what would keep the watchers honest, of course. Is that a bad thing?
Yes. It would be a violation of the checked user's privacy and probably the Foundation's privacy policy. For one thing, it would be possible in some cases to work out, by comparison with other nearby checks from the same checkuser, to work out who someone was suspected of being a sock of (very damaging if the checkuser actually cleared them of it). Also, people would draw incorrect inferences from examination of this partial data.
-Matt