Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
What's the reason, again, to spend the time to
universally empower
browsing end users to ID IPs?
I don't know what you mean by "universally", but the reason CheckUser
exists is because we didn't want to give representatives from the arbcom
shell access just so they could look up IPs. It's insecure, we'd rather
keep the number of people with shell access to an absolute minimum.
-- Tim Starling