BowAndArrowMan

Almost everyone, or at least everyone I've known, have always said they have a good sense of humour. Humour is very much rooted in one's culture and where one lives. Often humour doesn't travel well. Quite often my attempts at humour fall on deaf ears or even cause slight offence. This is particularly true when blogging where bloggers come from many different countries and the written word unlike the spoken word is a bit more restrictive in conveying humour. Emojis and exclamation marks rarely make up for the lack of body gestures or facial expressions. How would you describe your sense of humour? And what sort of humour do you find funny? What makes you laugh? My sense of humour is quite dry and often self-deprecating; that seems to be a British trait. I also like a good pun, another British trait. I often use irony when speaking and satire when writing as humour. I never use sarcasm; that's something I leave sulky teenagers to do! I also like farce and slapstick as hu...

I've long been aware that this site spams a few comments/replies which are far from obvious to explain why they've been spammed. As a result, I regularly check my spam folder to 'unspam' such comments/replies. I put the arbitrary nature of spamming here down to the site's algorithm. But things have got stranger today. Today, I found four replies in my spam folder, all of them were comments/replies posted sometime ago. But none of them had appeared in my spam folder until today. After 'unspamming' them, I then went back to the blog posts from which they were spammed. I noticed that there were replies to my spammed replies. This suggests that site had spammed them well after they were posted. Strange! Furthermore, three of the four replies were replies I had written. The site is seemingly spamming comments/replies posted by the blogger of the blog post. How can a comment/reply I submit on my blog be regarded as spam? Yet more strange! Do you regularly check fo...