Stating a fact is indignant hysteria? I was replying to his comment which was a lie.
> outright harassment
I'll come back to this.
> a commenter over something completely irrelevant
OK. From OP:
"The man deserved what he got, but there are dozens of accounts that were his "executors" - doing the actual harassment for him in many cases - who got off scot-free, while he remains banned. There is no consistency."
From the article:
"However, the decision to ban Milo because of the actions of a few of his 500,000 followers (if that is indeed why this occurred) is horribly inconsistent."
Both of these statements are semantically similar—there is inconsistency.
That's an example of where the comment is low quality due to the OP not reading the article. So I reject that it's irrelevant.
Back to the harassment. I stated facts as plainly as I could. If he/she finds facts intimidating then I would say it's on the OP to examine what he/she said & did, and not on me to ignore or use mental gymnastics to defend incorrect statements.
Nothing in my comment as it stands now is false. Nothing in my responses to you are false. When I noticed something incorrect, I modified it, noted it, and accepted responsibility.
The fact that my comment is similar to the article doesn't make it false. The fact that I didn't notice the similarity immediately doesn't make it false. Even if my comment is of lesser quality because I didn't read the section of the article on Milo, which is a matter of opinion, that does not make me a liar.
Most importantly, the opinions stated in the last two sentences of the comment are positions that could be addressed on their own merits even if everything I had said up till that point was a lie, which it was not.
It seems to me that you have a preconceived understanding of what I was trying to say. I can't speak to what t that is or why, but I can see that rather than admit that you have a difference of opinion with me or engage me on my points, you attack me as a liar. In the process, you break HN rules and destroy part of the civility this comment chain has otherwise been enjoying. You are the one causing the issue here, not me, and you ought to stop.