Is humor an aid or a distraction in content writing?

I' a content creator and so far I have been able to connect with those articles which have a subtle humour component in them. Since my reading materials range from different genres and fields, I considered humour to be an interesting mechanism in a writing. When I write a technical article, if everything sounds surgical and scientific, only a limited crowd would be willing to go through that torture. Instead, I thought why not infuse some humour into it, and make the articles simpler so that anyone would wanna read it and that's what I did.

What is your stand on this? Do you consider humour to keep reading the content or is it merely an unwanted distraction?

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Originally Posted by Shana

I' a content creator and so far I have been able to connect with those articles which have a subtle humour component in them. Since my reading materials range from different genres and fields, I considered humour to be an interesting mechanism in a writing. When I write a technical article, if everything sounds surgical and scientific, only a limited crowd would be willing to go through that torture. Instead, I thought why not infuse some humour into it, and make the articles simpler so that anyone would wanna read it and that's what I did.

What is your stand on this? Do you consider humour to keep reading the content or is it merely an unwanted distraction?

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True Shana humor would attract more readers towards our content. Sometimes me too add humor in my content but I never experiment humor in technical articles, Maybe it's time to try it ;)