User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Wikia's 1st Hack-a-thon/@comment-3104099-20110403041831/@comment-26686429-20110403104938

The thing is, CheckUser can reveal sensitive data about a user, not all b'crats accross Wikia can be trusted with not using that information against a user. Wikia would also have to change their privacy policy to reflect this. It's be a mess, and would cause all kinds of problems.
 *  Random Time  10:49, April 3, 2011 (UTC)