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I disagree with your moderation here dang. The poster simply made the claim that two statements made were deliberately factually untrue (aka a "lie"). The poste

I disagree with your moderation here dang. The poster simply made the claim that two statements made were deliberately factually untrue (aka a "lie"). The poster did not say "You are a lier"; the attack was on the untrue statements not on a generalization about the person behind the statements. Is it simply that you would prefer the phrase "untrue statement" instead of "lie", and "you are making untrue statements" instead of "you are lying"?

dang 5y ago
"Lie" implies intent to deceive, which is something quite other than a factual correction, and throwing "you" in there makes it an outright personal attack. That's not acceptable here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html