Maybe I'm applying some hindsight bias, but I still agree with rolf that the evidence (for komponisto's position) was there in his selection of "the relevant facts". Keep in mind that many people did not spend any time at all reading the pro-guilt website and would not even be aware that he'd excluded "evidence" from there in his summary.

I believe that many of the posters (especially the wrong ones) didn't spend any additional time gathering information beyond that which was presented in the post+discussion; I certainly didn't. I like to believe that, because it implies that they could have gotten it right if they really cared to, which is a nicer thing to believe than that you absolutely can't trust most people's best efforts at thinking and making fair judgments.