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Subject: How can you spot a genuine good person from someone who is very

convincing but is not a good person at all?

Sometimes it's difficult but there is some always something off about the person who is faking it. How about you? Name some real life examples if you have any.

  • 12.06.2012 6:43 PM PDT
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I don't find it hard at all

  • 12.06.2012 6:43 PM PDT

You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.

  • 12.06.2012 6:44 PM PDT


Posted by: T1d3
I don't find it hard at all


Have any real life examples? Maybe someone you knew?

  • 12.06.2012 6:44 PM PDT

I'm a gun toting, cigar chomping, heartless, murdering sociopath. Come at me bro! *lights cigar*

Well that's the thing, sometimes you can't tell the difference. If you could they wouldn't be very good at faking it would they?

  • 12.06.2012 6:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Rational Music
Well that's the thing, sometimes you can't tell the difference. If you could they wouldn't be very good at faking it would they?


But there is always something that exposes them, Something about them is always off

  • 12.06.2012 6:47 PM PDT

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From my experience, these usually alert you to a bad apple:

1. They have a creepy personality
2. They just look mad
3. They are just too nice to you
4. Your innate feeling is telling you that something is off (can't really be described what makes you feel that way)

  • 12.06.2012 6:49 PM PDT

By the things they say and how they fail to coincide with their actions.

  • 12.06.2012 6:51 PM PDT


Posted by: AgentCOP1
From my experience, these usually alert you to a bad apple:

1. They have a creepy personality
2. They just look mad
3. They are just too nice to you
4. Your innate feeling is telling you that something is off (can't really be described what makes you feel that way)


Like people who are nice in public but behind closed doors they are the complete opposite.

  • 12.06.2012 6:51 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: General Dripik
You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.
If they're a good enough faker, then this.
If they are bad at faking, then I think it would be easy to point them out.

  • 12.06.2012 6:52 PM PDT

Break the windowsill

I guess the only would be to find out by their actions

  • 12.06.2012 6:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: General Dripik
You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.


this. Eventually, the manipulaters make a mistake. Although, that might be awhile, some get away with it for years.

[Edited on 12.06.2012 6:53 PM PST]

  • 12.06.2012 6:53 PM PDT

You can't. At least, not at first. That's what building trust is. Squeezing out someone's true intentions takes time.

  • 12.06.2012 6:53 PM PDT


Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: General Dripik
You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.
If they're a good enough faker, then this.
If they are bad at faking, then I think it would be easy to point them out.


I'm talking about people who are really good at faking it.

[Edited on 12.06.2012 6:54 PM PST]

  • 12.06.2012 6:53 PM PDT


Posted by: NinjaLord77

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: General Dripik
You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.
If they're a good enough faker, then this.
If they are bad at faking, then I think it would be easy to point them out.


I'm talking about people who are really good at faking it.

Patience. If they fake it forever, who cares? Genuine or not, they're still being good people.

  • 12.06.2012 6:55 PM PDT


Posted by: NinjaLord77

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: General Dripik
You don't at first. You find that stuff out over time.
If they're a good enough faker, then this.
If they are bad at faking, then I think it would be easy to point them out.


I'm talking about people who are really good at faking it.
Like I said before. You don't.

  • 12.06.2012 6:56 PM PDT

Sometimes I am tempted to quit gaming. I can no longer play without seeing ponyphags, horrendously bad teammates and mexicans.

Gaming community, I want you to know that you suck.

The problem is that you're looking for one.

  • 12.06.2012 6:57 PM PDT

Is it more common to find someone who started good then you realized that they are not or someone who you thought was bad but then realized was actually pretty good?

  • 12.06.2012 7:01 PM PDT