What you wrote before was (emphasis mine):

Abusive statements to me by their definition are meant to provoke an angry response.

and

OrphanWilde using terms like "you are creepy" to me are ad hominem attacks intentionally meant to provoke an angry response.

and I don't know how to interpret those other than in terms of motivation and not only outcome. But if you've now changed your position from "ad hominem abuse is intended to provoke an angry response" to "ad hominem abuse is likely to provoke an angry response" then we have no disagreement on that any more.

The original question was actually not about the intentions of ad hominem attacks in general but about whether OrphanWilde was admitting to trolling. Trolling is defined in terms of its intention and not merely its effects, so your change of position here doesn't alter my opinion that OrphanWilde was probably not trolling.