Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-37194541-20190810162509/@comment-168424-20190812200725

Harrypotterexpert101 wrote:

They used to give out CheckUser Rights to trusted admins on larger wikis because they didn't have the staff at the time to do IP checks for everyone. After they got a larger group they stopped giving out the rights to users, but they didn't take them away from the users who already had them. I mean, the CCCrew has the rights, but then again it's Community Central we are talking about.

Yup, this was true. They also used to give some admins bot enable rights on their wikis. However, the term "trusted admins" was never really defined. It was more like favoritism.