The MyLotter As Such --- A Typology

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1) The first group consists of the blabbermouths who (obviously must) emit every single thought that enters their brains in an attack of logorrhoea or verbal incontinence. This can lead to more than 100.000 posts in three years. Their preferred topics are: weather, meals, petty indispositions as well as the acquisition of goods. The pattern for their posts is the following: I've just come across/bought/used // name of product // and now I want to tell you what is in it/you can do with it/it is for. I can (not) recommend it because it is good/smells nice/lasts long/easy to understand or the opposite. 2) Then there are the prolific ones who fill the 'Most Recent' list in a way so that no other posts can be seen (and earn) for a long time. Their posts are on various topics, thusly creating the illusion that the members are interested in many things and also interesting people. The posts are usually short and nearly content free. To stick to the same kind of metaphor I used above: Before they discovered the internet, the members must have suffered from verbal constipation. 3) The third group, and the biggest by far, consists of the members who have understood what a good post should be like: not only information, but also personal opinion expressed in a way which makes the whole thing a pleasure to read. 4) We now come to the fourth group, a small gathering of people who treat myLot as a confessional box and/or a pulpit from where they can preach to heathens and atheists. They promise to pray for others and bless their readers without caring if this is welcome or not. I learnt about religiosity in the USA in a seminar at uni. That was theory. Now I see (a part of) the practice. I’ve decided to keep schtum and not tell you what I think about them for fear of going straight to hell. 5) You can rest and relax your brain with the creators of one-liners. As there is no character limit for a post on myLot and many members don't know English well, they come in by the bucketful. I've asked admin if we're meant to report them and got a positive answer. This doesn't mean, however, that they will all be deleted. Admin decides if they're truly worthless or can start a profound discussion. You can find them every day in the New User list. Occasionally I go there for my amusement. "You prefer life without love or love without life?" "What is meaning of life? What u think?" "Is there god? Give reason!" Is that profound? Or nonsense? Or profound nonsense? --- P.S. When I wrote 'myLot' into the pixabay search box, it was changed into 'Merlot' and this photo appeared. A hint from higher up? Some contributions on myLot are definitely better digested with a glass of wine,