I'm sure that using these sites was the thing for your research for all kinds of practical reasons, and you don't need to justify that :) My actual complaint was about the misleading title, which you did not address.
Note that the clickbait title actually hijacked your research; there's like three comments out of 240 here that are about your paper. So while it probably feels good to have received all this attention, it's just bogus engagement. I guess it's pretty meta for a paper about search result spam to do blackhat social media engagement optimization though.
I'm sure that using these sites was the thing for your research for all kinds of practical reasons, and you don't need to justify that :) My actual complaint was about the misleading title, which you did not address.
Note that the clickbait title actually hijacked your research; there's like three comments out of 240 here that are about your paper. So while it probably feels good to have received all this attention, it's just bogus engagement. I guess it's pretty meta for a paper about search result spam to do blackhat social media engagement optimization though.