Batching of Tasks by Users of Pseudonymous Forums: Anonymity Compromise and Protection. (arXiv:2211.12686v1 [cs.CR])

There are a number of forums where people participate under pseudonyms. One
example is peer review, where the identity of reviewers for any paper is
confidential. When participating in these forums, people frequently engage in
"batching": executing multiple related tasks (e.g., commenting on multiple
papers) at nearly the same time. Our empirical analysis shows that batching is
common in two applications we consider $\unicode{x2013}$ peer review and
Wikipedia edits. In this paper, we identify and address the risk of
deanonymization …

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