[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Durova]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 17 May 2012 17:32, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That conclusion would be far more convincing if you weren't who you are.
>
> That's [[ad hominem]] against Carcharoth, and you really need either
> to withdraw it, or back it up. The former option is much preferable.
>
> Charles
>

That reaction certainly comes as a surprise.  Why would you construe an
attack or a fallacy?

In any meaningful experiment the researcher attempts to reduce the
variables to a single factor.  Surely you'll agree that an established
registered editor's contributions might encounter a different degree of
scrutiny from an unregistered IP's edits.  Carcharoth himself concedes the
possibility.  What need could there be to apologize for agreeing?