On 8/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/08/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
OK, but barring that event (say the person had a static IP), there's pretty much a consensus that a checkuser who found out such information and never revealed it had broken checkuser policy (but not privacy policy), right?
I suspect it's the sort of thing that would make the other checkers wonder what the hell they thought they were playing at. Do you have a specific example in mind? In real life, carefully-worded theoreticals are much harder to talk about than actual examples.
I'll simplify the question, then. Are checkusers allowed to checkuser a user that isn't clearly violating policy? Is doing so a violation of the checkuser policy? Is it a violation of the privacy policy?