[WikiEN-l] SlimVirgin and CheckUser leaks

Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm
Sat Jul 19 23:40:10 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:27:28PM -0700, Josh Gordon wrote:
> A reason is logged, if it is provided. I'll admit I don't enter a reason
> for a lot of the cases that I process that involve, for example, Grawp
> socks.

I would be interested to know the opinions of active checkusers on 
whether reveaing to an abuser that some account had been checked might 
allow the abuser to evade detection later. That is the main concern 
I have about routinely revealing to a user that a check has been made. 

  - Carl 



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