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In article >,
"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> Om wrote:
>
> > Bob, why are you so rude to Stu' about his website? It is very well put
> > together, informative and fun. As for the material, there is a TON of
> > valuable cooking information (like said chart) that is not copyrighted
> > information and is available to all.

>
> His site is almost completely plagiarized, and from some highly suspect
> sources. Stu has posted many ****ed-up recipes from his website to this
> forum. I (and others) have pointed out some of the flaws to him. In every
> single case, even when the recipe was obviously blatantly wrong, Stu refused
> to accept responsibility for the errors, saying that the recipes came from
> some other source, and it's up to the original source to fix the errors,
> even though they would remain ****ed-up on his web site after such a
> correction could be made. So those ****ed-up recipes are still there on his
> web site, still waiting for someone less knowledgeable to come along and
> ruin dinner by following them. And Stu doesn't care enough to fix them.
>
> Bob


Have you tried being _polite_ about the errors? Constructive criticism
is far more acceptable than outright attacks. Attacks are not generally
going to be listened to.

I don't hesitate to make suggestions as to how to improve a recipe, but
I do it politely!
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