I was recently approached by another website to allow my curry recipe to be used on their site. I was more than happy for that to happen – until I read the comments of one (and then several) of their members!
This website is about driving and driving instruction. I add a few of my own thoughts and opinions as the fancy takes me. I like curry and cooking, so that also features. It is a blog .
blog – definitions
- a regularly updated website wherein texts or articles of one or more authors are shown in a reverse-chronological order, meaning the first one is the latest one. Authors conserve the right to post works they consider pertinent.
- is a short form of “web log”. Log means a diary or journal, usually a notebook where you write regular reports of what you did or thought. Every ship has a “captain’s log” in which the captain records details of the ship’s voyage day by day.
- A “web log” or online diary. Blogs have been identified as an increasingly popular source of online publication, especially regarding political information, opinion publication and alternative news coverage.
The other website is a forum about curry (and takeaway recipes generally). Forums are often frequented by trolls:
troll – definition
Forum trolls are users that repeatedly and deliberately breach the netiquette of an established online community, posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages to bait or excite users into responding or to test the forum rules and policies, and with that the patience of the forum staff. Their provocative behavior may potentially start flame wars (see below) or other disturbances. Responding to a troll’s provocations is commonly known as ‘feeding the troll’ and is generally discouraged, as it can encourage their disruptive behavior.
This is specifically why I have comments on this blog turned off. On the rare occasions I have turned them on, I have immediately been spammed or trolled by the likes of those who posted the comments I refer to on this other website. I mean, why? Why turn a simple “can I use your curry recipe” into a pathetic – yet typical – forum war? The guy who started it is specifically the kind of person who gets frequent mentions on this blog. It really is a shame that forum owners and moderators don’t keep the mental cases under stricter control!
What I choose to post on this blog is my business (just like it would be if I kept a journal or diary). People can take it or leave it as they choose – and if that means behaving like prats and trolling other forums, that’s fine. But they can’t do it here, because I won’t let them.
The website which approached me already has people questioning the recipe. There’s too much garam masala, there’s not enough garam masala, too much this, too much that, etc. One deity opines “it looks familiar”! Why? God only knows. Just try the damned recipe, and either like it or don’t!
The recipe is there for people to try if they want to. They will either like it, or they won’t like it. The decision is theirs – not some berk who thinks he knows all there is to know about curry and can tell what it will taste like just by looking at it!
Mind you, although the number of hits I get on this site is quite large – driving instructors (not wannabe curry chefs) frequent it – this childish little episode has sent it a lot higher.