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David Gerard wrote:
We need more people with access to CheckUser, because I don't scale, and we're under a nasty vandalbot attack. Proposal at:
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* _You have to pick people you can trust, and then trust them allthe way._ Various people are going to ask to have this logged seven ways to Sunday to protect against possible abuses - but adding red tape is just going to be a massive PITA and not actually affect whether the CheckUser checker can be trusted to act with confidence. Basically, we have to pick people we trust not to use the power for evil. Like we do admins and bureaucrats, but more so.
How about Stewards? They can set/remove the admin flag on users across all projects, so why not let them run IP checks as well?
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