Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26074320-20160205124203/@comment-26074320-20160205142427

SuperSajuuk wrote: CheckUser is almost never given out any more to my knowledge (and despite the help doc, CheckUser is only ever used when someone is making socks to falsify consensus, vandalism/disruptive editing is pretty much not a reason).

Presumably that was made possible for wiki's suffering severe vandalism problems and was a precursor to VSTF, but most of it has passed anyway. usually, if a wiki suffers vandalism issues, they can either deal with it themselves or report to VSTF. yes, Hypothetical hurricanes has had problems with vandals, that's why im asking for those rights, so that I can perform a user background check when they join. at least I know that then that I can find those people vandalising, like the two sock puppets we have, a yolo and someone who variates around names ending in turnip