To be clear, it doesn't take any privileges granted only to gods, one needs only to read what is written and make one's own mind up whether it was trollish. I didn't, in fact, use any godsly powers to conclude who authored the nodes (nor in concluding that they were trollish) and clearly neither did perrin (in Re^4: Why does exists cause autovivication?).

For future reference, if something causes one to think "What absolute rubbish, how on earth can you draw that conclusion?", then that is often a big clue.