Forum:Revisited:Checkuser

A discussion on IRC led up to the decision that having only one user with the Checkuser right does not help much. At this time, it is hard to get a fast reply from Joey (through no fault of his own), so it would be useful to have a few more users with it.

For those who don't know/have forgotten what Checkuser is, it's a tool which allows the users who have it to look up a user's IP and therefore be able to find out any alternate accounts which may have been used for vandalism or vote manipulation etc. It's a powerful tool so it shouldn't really be given out to everyone. It's not possible to abuse this tool without being caught. As with deletes, blocks, and other administrative tasks, every checkuser action is logged.

The discussion also led to 3 people who would be nominated to receive the tool - User:Azuris, User:Bovell and User:Callofduty4. These 3 users are as active as you're going to find, both on-wiki and on IRC. They also have experience in situations where Checkuser would be needed.

Thanks for reading, please discuss. 01:14, December 28, 2010 (UTC)