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I _think_ I can very easily spot BS. That has its downsides... I very easily get very annoyed with BS.

I know a few people who as good as constantly BS. It's a puzzle to me what drives them, and why it seems like they even don't know they are BSing. Is there some psychological explanation, I'm curious.

I was thinking about giving examples to state my point, but in fact every somewhat sane person must have had those 'WTF are they saying' moments.

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I think part of it is that BS is commonly quite effective. Good BSers are commonly good at getting information out of people and feeding it back to them as a kind of echo chamber. Most people will not pose adversarial information (that is say something purposefully wrong) to see if the BSer agrees with it and parrots it back. The BSer confirms the other persons worldviews at the same time spouting whatever crap it is they are selling. Very common tactic in grifters.

One example I can easily recall is some guy bsing about his arena rank in wow. I wasn't good, but I asked enough questions to determine he was absolutely bsing to the point of laughter.

Like the kind of kid that says he has a GF that lives in another city or state or even Canada lol

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