--- Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really trust all admins that much?
Certainly not. And I must say dont trust most Arbcom members all that much either.
If there is a problem concerning privacy, such as
making IP addresses
available
I use CheckUser on a regular basis, and to be honest
this would be
insufficient to make effective use of the CheckUser
tool.
The point is to have some openness to the process. Which users are these priveleged elite checking up on? Thats what the public should know, provided any specifically private data (like IP addresses) is removed -- which is trivial to do.
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.
Thats sounds reasonable, but just for the record, when exactly was the Arbcom empowered to grant this access to specific users, and did this change follow the normal protocol (ie. a decree)?
-Stevertigo
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