On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if the reason is currently logged - if this policy is implemented, a reason should be required when the checkuser is performed. Giving a reason afterwards lends itself to abuse.
A reason is logged, if it is provided. I'll admit I don't enter a reason for a lot of the cases that I process that involve, for example, Grawp socks. It could easily be made mandatory, at the cost of making the process more annoying than it already is. An exhaustive checkuser search of a sock farm can take hundreds of checks, and the tools, as powerful as they are, have a pretty primitive interface. But there's no technical cause that reasons can't be mandatory.