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.
That is why it is only being used by a trusted set of users and only under strict terms. The developers have always had the ability to see your IP. The ArbCom needs it to check for sock puppets.
-- mav
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