I was talking about people who posted an opinion as to the probable guilt of the accused. While I think the first few such posts clearly had done the work of traversing the pro- anti- and wikipedia sites suggested, many later comments were based primarily on the evidence selected by previous players.

I could be completely wrong about that, but that's how I felt: not motivated to filter through "the internet" for evidence, but interested in the discussion, and allowing myself to update based on facts brought to my attention by others.

I do believe that "most people" (hopefully not here) really can't be trusted to have actually thought things through, though.