On 11/13/05, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
My cents: I think this whole checkuser shit is totally re-tarded. It's a grave violation of privacy. I have accounts on Wikipedia only because I care about my anonymousity (otherwise I would edit as an "anon"). I do NOT wan't someone to connect my contributions to my identity. Especially not someone I don't know and who identifies itself with a random and totally meaningless userid!
Dumb dumb dumb. Stupid stupid stupid.
There are times when it is very useful to know if two or more accounts come from the same ip. There are also times when we need to know which ISP to send complaints to. -- geni