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[–] • 6 pts

ArbCom has informed me that I am using my CU privileges in ways that violate policy.

Hell yes, you have, Bbbitch23!

Finally!

[–] • 2 pts
[–] • 1 pt

I don't follow all of the BS Wikipedia politics and power abuse... anyone want to explain what the CheckUser priv is and how it was being abused?

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

CheckUser privileges allow reading parameters of editors such as the browser's user agent, session cookie ID and IP address.

Here is (quora.com) how it is sometimes misused.

I understand its purpose to prevent harm to Wikipedia, but it is often being used against productive users with positive intentions. Administrators then erase user's good work (e.g. https://archive.is/ESkCh ; https://archive.is/xZu6k ), their correct redirects and good, functional templates for no logical reason.

But Bbb23 also labels anything critical of him and legitimate questions as trolling and blocks users from their own talk page without allowing them to explain themselves.

About the news that Bbb23 left: By now, I believe it is an April Fool's prank.
If it was, I failed to realize it due to my initial euphoria of seeing the same administrator who destroyed all of my work within minutes leaving Wikipedia.

But Bbb23 admitted that he is aware of criticism against him.