Gentlemen, I must say that beyond the raw results the reactions are also very interesting because I think this actually IS what I called "community behavior". Clics and votes are just one "reaction" type, and those clever and smart comments are another one. Maybe much more important to understand this corpus. Indeed, this is the first test list to have started a smart debate around the subject and even if I'm not a specialist I'll study those comments with attention.
However, I have some questions. For this list I was advised by a "geek" (with no offense), for example to write the topic and format the content. I was also very lucky because it appears that in the same time a real security advisory about Safari on IOS has been released, making this fake test more attractive (that was not expected). My advisor told me that the high clics amount during the first minutes of publication is not very surprising because this list is followed by millions of readers, and a very few part are real security pro or "aware" persons. Many others -the biggest part- are just casual readers. Would you say this is correct ? My feeling is also that this community has what I'd call a "scientist" profile: this means people that tend to always test, think and discuss things. This would explain why the falsification was quickly discovered, explained to others and why a clever debate started. I don't expect such a behavior on the other tests but maybe the "breaking news" one. Am I right on that ? My advisor also warned me about possible aggressive reactions but I don't see any so far. Was he right, or the fact that smart people started to comment at the first place is an explanation ? Is it correct to say that there is some kind of "respect", at least enough that when smart people are speaking, the useless ones keep quiet ? Whatever, this is very interesting and I must thank you all. Regards,
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