On 10/19/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Look, I'm happy with the board appointing trusted
people to use
checkuser. I don't mind if this is delegated to arbcom.
But I'm not happy at all about having a RFA-style beauty contest for
people to use checkuser. Nope. This isn't how we do things
associated with privacy.
The notion that consensus *alone* can determine who is entitled to
checkuser rights is laughable. The effectiveness of RFA in culling
inappropriate candidates from admin rights lately has been quite poor;
I dread to think what the results would be of letting checkuser get
handed out this way
No, sorry, this simply won't do.
Kelly