One of the qualities that make Leite’s Culinaria useful to readers, home cooks, and laptop gastronomes is interaction. I enjoy hearing from you—your thoughts, your praise, your criticism, your suggestions—and I encourage that through comments. But along with that invitation comes the responsibility of following rules of common decency that make LC a safe and trustworthy place:
- Rude, abusive, mean, or hurtful comments or opinions are simply not allowed. I understand that you may have strong feelings about a recipe, a post, an author, or an author’s point of view, but I ask that you express them respectfully and thoughtfully. There’s a difference between a healthy disagreement and a rant or a character attack. And realize that people have different experiences of the same food, culture, location, or country. Please respect that.
- Self-serving comments whose sole purpose is to promote another site or product and not contribute to a productive dialogue on the site are not allowed. You’re more than welcome to post a link to your blog or site in the appropriate text field, but please also add something of value to your comment.
- Reviews and star ratings that aren’t based on actually making the dish may have the rating, the comment, or both removed. That doesn’t mean I remove a review for being negative. In fact, a negative review that’s detailed and well-written is extremely useful—it forces me to revisit the recipe to tweak it for clarity, retest and improve it, or, in some cases, even pull it from the site entirely.
- Always keep your comments on topic. Irrelevant comments will either be removed or moved to a more appropriate post.
- If you want to share how you’ve personalized a recipe, my readers and I are all ears.
- If you like a post, please tell me why! It helps me to give you more of what you like. A simple “Wow, this is great!” is certainly flattering, but leaves me clueless.
In short, I invite you to be a part of the LC family. I look forward to a long, chatty relationship.
☞ NOTE: I reserve the right to edit comments for length, clarity, and grammar; not to publish comments; to remove comments and ratings that are clearly not based on experience with a recipe; or to remove already posted comments at any time without notice.
Chow,
