I assume you mean https://web.archive.org/web/20201106185230if_/https://www.fa... because you've brought this up like six times already, but I think you're overinterpreting it. To me it looks like someone pasted a headline from some news story reporting the heads-on-pikes comment. Probably some intern, as I doubt that Bannon is pasting things into Facebook, he is surely too vain for that.

That's the same verified Facebook page that hosts his weekly live stream.

You can say that those aren't his words, but... his platform again states he's calling for the President to execute two people.

Please drop the 'lie' bit- there's no evidence that AaronFriel is being intentionally misleading.

You've successfully allowed a thread to have DOZENS of AaronFriel's false comments, whether or not they were lies, they were clearly misinformed. You've allowed his comment, which I'm sure multiple people flagged, stating this, to stick:

> I am beyond tired of people making excuses for public threats of violence from authoritarian right-wing actors. It isn't helpful to any discourse to pretend words don't mean what they mean anymore.

Fuck you, dang. Go ahead and ban me. You're a really fucking shitty moderator, and you allow fucking garbage political threads like this to go with one-sided, bad faith, bullying trash from people like AaronFriel. But, OOOH GOTCHA ISOSKELES, YOU SAID "LYING" WHEN MAYBE HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW. Fuck you. And fuck Hacker News.

Ouch. Look, I know how explosive all this is and I don't need to ban someone for having strong feelings. But we need to hold the container in a certain way.

It's fine to say that another comment is false, especially if you then add corrective information. It's fine to say that it's misleading, if you show how and (again) add corrective info. But to say that another user is lying crosses a clear semantic line: it imputes malicious intent, i.e. not just that they're wrong but that they know the truth and are intending to deceive. That we don't allow. Surely it's not hard to see why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As someone who has previously argued with HN moderation and dang before, I don't think this is a good tact.

I also had comments flagged for saying someone was arguing in bad faith.