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There's a handy table, two of them in fact, of terminology for strength of evidence here. Up to 5 decibans is "barely worth mentioning". How many microbans does "Zeus ate my homework" amount to?
You may be joking, but I do think LW (and everywhere else) would be improved if people didn't do that. I find nitpicking as unappealing as nose-picking.
Few enough that it's in the "barely worth mentioning" bracket, of course. (Under any kind of resource constraint, it wouldn't be mentioned at all, however that only relates to its infinitesimal weight, not the nature of what it is (evidence).)
You say that shouldn't be classified as evidence, I say it should. Note that the table is about strength of evidence.