I think you're getting heavily downvoted with your comments on this submission because you seem to be missing a critical sociological dimension of assumed trust. If you submit a patch from a real name email, you get an extra dimension of human trust and likewise an extra dimension of human repercussions if your actions are deemed to be malicious.

You're criticizing the process, but the truth is that without a real name email and an actual human being's "social credit" to be burned, there's no proof these researchers would have achieved the same findings. The more interesting question to me is if they had used anonymous emails, would they have achieved the same results? If so, there might be some substance to your contrarian views that the process itself is flawed. But as it stands, I'm not sure that's the case.

Why? Well, look at what happened. The maintainers found out and blanket banned bad actors. Going to be a little hard to reproduce that research now, isn't it? Arbitraging societal trust for research doesn't just bring ethical challenges but /practical/ ones involving US law and standards for academic research.