Sorry, I just could NOT help myself...

I did (briefly) consider going the high road, but then I realized that someone who's that far gone is never going to be able to communicate sufficiently enough to make any money here, and frankly, (as evidenced by the post itself), "bored" is almost certainly a synonym for "lazy".

Being an unbelievably good music critic who objectively ascertains the quality of songs based on the merit of the tune/melody only. I decided to take a look at the output of Taylor Swift on Youtube.

With the exception of one song: "You Belong To Me" which was quite good musically, I find the rest of what I heard to be formulaic C & W style structured pop songs. The tunes were slight and the hooks/choruses were unmemorable musically.

The songwriting reminds me of the sort of stuff that is relentlessly churned out by many modern day Country & Western stars. Generally, all done in a similar key and when listened too one after the other tends to blur into an overall similar sound, one song completely indistinguishable from the other.

If Taylor Swift had a part in writing "You Belong To Me" then I would put her in the category of a singer who can occasionally write a reasonable tune. She may get better at it?

It would also suggest that you may be into modern day Country & Western music with rock power ballad overtones.



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On the positive side, David - the mods are trying to keep the cobwebs out of the corners....

Yes - there are threads deleted that you've missed from this person. Same questions over and over - claims of having loads of money to spend and basically it's someone just playing around.

We've always had members doing that but not in the numbers we're seeing now. It does hurt because new members with real questions end up getting bad answers because other newbies seem to think it's all a game. Maybe at this point it is... The level of "substance" is declining rapidly and it's sad to see it. Consider the "all about me" GaiaGoddess thread that just keeping going in circles - getting bumped by the OP whenever it slows.

It's been literally YEARS since we've seen numbers as low as this:

Currently Active Users: 7798 (946 members and 6852 guests)


A long time member (was it Ron?) had posted recently about threads increasing in quality - and it did seem to be happening but it didn't last.


Lee - I just ran into another example upstairs. A thread started by someone who never posted again and didn't come back to the WF - thread dated April and is still being bumped....by affiliate links in posts - by copy/pasted "advice".

The copy/paste model has been rampant here recently. Paid posters are a problem, too, and a hard one to identify sometimes.

It's not just awful; the post took it to an extreme. Either this was a troll that wrote that poorly intentionally, or, (more likely), it was someone who just could not be bothered to show the least amount of incentive in life. He's "bored", he wants to be paid to play games, (as long as they're free), he states that his own production is "random", and frankly, can't be bothered to even try to punctuate, capitalize, or take any effort to construct his thoughts into some sort of cohesion so as to communicate clearly with others.

I've outsourced for two decades. I've dealt with plenty of people for whom English is not their native language. Most people from such a background at least try to show some effort, especially when they intend to earn money. In fact, if you show some patience, folks from third-world nations can often communicate better than some native-born Americans who seem to take English for granted. The educational system here, ("No Child Left Behind", and now this "Core Curriculum" nonsense), is an absolute joke; the only thing that's stressed in school is how to pass tests, and even those can apparently be faked easily. If the teachers don't care, certainly the children aren't going to care, and this post was a prime example of this extreme apathy.

A huge section of the American population just doesn't seem to care, isn't interested in working, lives on public assistance of one form or another, perpetuates additional (and subsequently larger) generations with the same attitudes, and it's all incredibly frustrating.

Do you ever have a moment when you realize....

'if I met this person in 'real life' I'd have nothing to do with them'? That's when I exited that thread. I've met people like that and I distance myself far and fast....because listening to them makes my mind glaze over.

Not saying I'm "better than" - just that I have low tolerance for the drama.