# Does "Deliberately Distorted" = "Lied"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-deliberately-distorted-lied/722598>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 15, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-deliberately-distorted-lied/722598 "2015-06-15T19:18:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 27

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-deliberately-distorted-lied/722598/27 "2015-06-16T07:53:25Z")

</div>

Just for the record. Calling out on someone for lying is only a rule in Great Debates.  
It’s discouraged in other forums, but there’s no actual rule for it in any other forum outside of GD and doing something akin to calling “bullshit” on something that is, indeed, dubious isn’t forbidden.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-deliberately-distorted-lied/722598)._