On 12/20/05, Sam Fentress (Asbestos) asbestos999@gmail.com wrote:
This may have been discussed before. If so, apologies.
Why not make the checkuser function available to all admins? There are constant allegations of sockpuppetry, and I'm sure there are plenty of cases of ballot-stuffing or fake-consensus-building which go unnoticed because someone's suspicions weren't enough to both a developer with. Having the function available to all admins would cut down on a lot of this underhandedness.
Do you really trust all admins that much?
If there is a problem concerning privacy, such as making IP addresses available (I'm not sure exactly what the checkuser funcion shows), when couldn't it be modified to only show which users have been created by the same IP (i.e., put in a name, and it shows you the other users)
I use CheckUser on a regular basis, and to be honest this would be insufficient to make effective use of the CheckUser tool.
We have six editors with CheckUser rights on en (not including stewards and developers); if more are needed the Arbitration Committee may choose to extend CheckUser rights to additional parties. Until such time as the ArbCom is convinced of the need, it'll stay at six.
Kelly