To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously π.
Whatβs the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose thatβs the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: Iβm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
Weβre pretty much all strangers online, correct?
If something is posted that is provably false, it is provably false. It doesnβt matter if the poster regularly posts accurate things about another subject. The post would still be provably false, even if the poster was normally truthful about barley.
Imo, if someone wants to be seen as honest, the onus is on them to act honestly. If you act in a way thatβs dishonest, people will likely acknowledge that youβre acting in a way thatβs dishonest. If their only experience of you is through you being dishonest, it only makes sense that theyβll think that youβre dishonest.
No one is owed being considered as an honest and trustworthy person. If you do lie, you should expect the people who you lied to to no longer trust you. Why would they? Thatβs not a reasonable expectation to have.
Being considered as an honest person is one of those things that you kind of have to do to earn. If you act dishonestly, it would be silly to expect other people to still consider you as an honest person. You donβt get to mislead people and then become upset when they donβt believe you anymore. That isnβt rational.
Itβs pretty easy to avoid being labaled as a liar online, tbh. Verify your stuff before you post it. Donβt double down against solid evidence, especially without any of your own. Donβt make stuff up. Accept and acknowledge that you can be wrong sometimes, and strive for the correct answer instead of the one that βwinsβ the argument for you.
Misinformation is dangerous, and it deserves to be called out. Misinformation can cause a lot more harm than someone occasionally being called a βliarβ online by a random stranger.
I would also argue that most people probably havenβt really had problems with being called a βliarβ online.
If the misinformation is about how many seeds an orange has, people probably wonβt care too much, as it doesnβt really cause a lot of harm. That type of misinformation usually just gets passively corrected.
If the misinformation ends with someone else suffering, it will likely get called out harshly, and probably deservedly so.
I donβt know whatβs happened to cause you to dislike people being called liars to this extent, but there is a good reason for people doing that sometimes. Iβm not going to stalk your page or comments, so idk where you personally fall on that. Calling someone a βliarβ is similar to calling someone βdishonestβ.