My use of the word whimsical was to indicate that your decision was capricious, ie. ungoverned, and entirely at your own perrogative, rather than perverse or light-hearted.

I wasn't attempting to call your integrity into question. I recognise that you did not anounce the OPs monkname.

The only point I had was that anonymity is only worthy of the name if it cannot be trivially (in terms of the decision to do it, rather than the process involved) violated.

Had I been the OP in this instance, I would have preferred a "If you'll contact me privately and identify yourself to me, I will look up the statistics".

I would say that I consider the privacy issue all together more important that the rate of downvotes.