Anthere (anthere9(a)yahoo.com) [051014 06:28]:
Could the arbcom make a decision of agreeing to give
check user access
to more arbcom members ?
Easily. The way it came about was that we were asking the devs *lots and
lots* for IP checks, they had other things to do (running the site) and so
we thought about who could and would do it. I volunteered because I had
some idea which way was up in IP checking, and Tim hacked together the
Special:CheckUser page.
So basically we need people who could be trusted to keep the IP data
confidential and who have some idea how to interpret the results. That's
the basic requirement: (a) trustworthiness (b) competence. (a) is the
community's problem, but anyone who's ever traced spammers or network
abuse would be a good start for (b).
- d.