2006/6/16, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com:
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.
I would be willing to do this; however, before getting into such a function, I would want to be get some more instruction/discussion/whatever you call it on what the rules are and when lines are being overstepped, so that I have the capability to make an autonomous decision in at least most of the cases; without that, I don't think anything is really won.