User blog comment:Burnit!/Why you shall never use Thomas Wikia Chat now/@comment-4143277-20140714091607

"Checking people's IPs is a Wikia Staff's job. and the Thomas Wikia is trying to do it by themselves."

Not necessarily. On the MLP wiki, we have two check user admins who are able to look at users' IPs - but only sparingly in cases where it looks like they're abusing multiple accounts. Staff bestowed these rights to us after a long forum and we get a lot of people who abuse accounts there too.

Since most IPs change the next hour or day, I don't see any security risks with them. But the point is it's not only staff's job to do it - there's quite a few wikis out there with local check users.