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Tony Sidaway wrote:
Sean Barrett said:
I think that, for the sort of cases outlined below, CheckUser could be used perhaps if the user themselves specifically said it would be OK.
ROTFL! It means that we should ask every sockpuppet for permission to check to see if he is a sockpuppet. :-D
If the sockpuppet is denying that it is a sockpuppet, it should be willing to give permission, ne?
Not necessarily. Someone wrongly accused of being a sock puppet could well have objections to an IP check on grounds of privacy.
But how would we know if they were wrongly accused or not, unless we check? And isn't that already covered by the privacy policy? It's not like they have a right to deny - anyone who edits Wikipedia should realise that they're playing Calvinball, and they're not Calvin - and many other website respect people's privacy far less than Wikipedia does. Anyway, with dynamic IPv4 and proxy servers, an IP can mean very little. AOL users are probably more anonymous than logged in users.
- -- Alphax GnuPG key: 0xF874C613 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' - C. S. Lewis