[WikiEN-l] Ryulong blocked ALL accounts

[Guettarda]

On 4/21/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/21/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> > They did not commit any offense, merely participated in debate. I'm
> curious, but that is   > no reason to run checkuser.
>
> What confuses me is this, if those using the anonymous accounts to
> protest the Brandt unblocking were concerned about Jimbo and co taking
> some kind of retribution on them for their views then what good would
> it do to make another account? If the "God Kings" are petty enough to
> do that, then they would have no qualms about doing an out of process
> checkuser to find out who they are.


I'm curious how you came to the conclusion that the editor(s) were/was
trying to hide from Jimbo.  Despite what Fred said, I'd be very surprised if
no one ran checkuser, after all, it can be run without generating a public
log...