To add to what tptacek has said, this everyone-is-lying position is not compatible with the discussions that this site is for. So if you'd like to have those kinds of conversations, they'll have to take place elsewhere.

My position isn't that everyone is lying. The person I replied to said this. I was demonstrating to them how easy it is to take that approach and have it turned against them. They replied as well, and understood what I was saying.

Maybe I should have been more clear what I was doing, but considering I know what I was saying and so did the person I replied to, I feel it's fair to say that assuming I was being negative and not understanding the context is also on those who disagree with what I said. Especially considering the status of the post that says all this in the first place.

Basically, I stand by what my comment says (assuming everyone is lying is wrong), and those that disagree with me are wrong.

You can't comment like this on HN, and by this point you should know that.

I was replying to the person who said the very same thing I said. I literally use their own comment to demonstrate how bad comments like this are.

Maybe I should have explicitly called that out for those that weren't reading this comment in context, but the person I replied to knows what I said, and they were who I was replying to.

If you are against this comment, you should also report the original comment that said this as well. It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192777

Honestly, I couldn't even make sense of what that commenter was trying to say. But that's the trouble with counter-trolling! Just by being better at writing a coherent sentence, you can end up unilaterally making threads worse.

Fair point. If the situation would have been that bad, I'd probably had it recorded. Thankfully it resolved after talking to them or, in case of a random stranger, friends stood up against them.