On 6/16/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
The board regularly receives some complaints about checkuser activity and what happened is either that no one look at the case, or look at them poorly. In 95% of case, the "abuse" is imaginary; but we can not be sure that one day there will not be a problem.
So, what I suggest is a sort of ombuds-wo-man for checkuser, who will offer a sympathetic ear to complainers, take charge of investigating cases for the board in an official manner, mediate between the checkuser and the complainer when the case is litigious, educate checkuser if necessary, and will report to the board in case where there IS a problem.
Additionnaly, this person might have a sort of "overview" over the way the checkuser system works and may give us suggestions of suitable modifications of policies. Or recommandations of software changes.
We need to have one or two people specifically named, so as to be able to say "please, talk to xxx" and to be *sure* a case is taken into consideration (as opposed to "but I thought someone else was taking care of this").
Any volunteers ?
Given that we've talked about this in the past, yes, I would be willing to serve in this capacity.
Kelly