I may be giving adefmay the benefit of the doubt due to an overactive conscience; I go back and forth on this particular case. Still, it seems to me that being new here can involve a lot of early perceived hostility (people who've joined the community more recently, feel free to support or correct this claim), that we may well be losing LW contributors for this reason, and that some relatively easy fixes might do a lot of good.

I'd have to say that the trollness seems obvious as all hell to me.

Me too. Obvious from his second comment on, even. (Or, if not a troll, not going to become a valued contributor without some growing up.)

Seeing as I missed that whole thing, and I am interested in how to best define evidence (I need such a definition for other forums, probably more than I would need it here)... Could someone post those same links about the definition (or, I see the word "Meaning" used... Why is that???) of Evidence?

Never mind... It's in the Wiki...