One has to laugh

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where something has happened that has caused you to feel frustrated, but it also seems so utterly ridiculous that you cannot help but laugh about it?

If it seems like I'm talking in riddles, then allow me to explain.

Earlier, I had attempted to start a discussion, but as soon as I clicked on the 'Post' button, the site's anti-spam software sprang into action because it had deemed the content of my post to be SPAM. Whilst I appreciate the anti-spam software is software, and not a human being, I struggled to understand how it had formed that opinion. Anyway, after providing the ultra-sensitive anti-spam software with a brief explanation as to why I didn't believe I was guilty of the crime it had suspected me of, I had then signed out.

As I've not yet got around to tweaking my NAS settings, when I then checked my e-mails there was one notifying me of the supposed misdemeanour that I obviously already knew about and had appealed just a few minutes earlier. It was the wording of that e-mail notification that I felt compelled to laugh at. Despite my discussion being under review and therefore not visible on the forum, the e-mail notification stated that it had been 'flagged by other users as inappropriate'. 

Now, as that discussion/thread/post - whatever one wishes to call it - has yet to appear on the forums, I'm at a loss as to how other users could have possibly flagged it. Laughing

If the software considers itself to be human and a user of the online community, then I think we should all feel very afraid.

On a serious note, I can fully understand why some members get so freaked out by the software when it pounces on them... especially when they have familiarised themselves with the Online Community Rules, and are 99.9% certain that they haven't said or done anything that those rules prohibit.

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  • At least we have been lucky enough to be able to use our original accounts.

    I have had the feeling of laughing in the face of adversity many times. It's a fine line, though! The great gingerbread man disaster of 2018 springs to mind for some unknown reason... I'm going to try and find a photo to explain.

    Anyway, one silver lining is that I have seen you on the forum many times but for some reason we've rarely interacted. It's nice that we've had a few.

    *Goes off to PC to find ginger bread photo*

  •  Can't get the photos to upload. Done it plenty of times before...

    Ah well, something else to laugh/cry about.

    My wife and I were in charge of Gingerbread Men for Christmas (2017, not 2018 according to the photos time stamps)

    We had them in the boot of the car. We stopped at a service station because it was a bit of a trip to get there. We opened the boot to get something out and the tin of the lovingly made and decorated gingerbread men fell on the wet ground. We were pretty upset about it, but it was also very comical. Like some sort of gingerbread related horror film.

  • Poor gingerbread people. Always unfortunate when that happens lol.

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