A Thread for Mr. Howerton, the owner of AZBilliards Site

Low500

AzB Silver Member
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Mr. Howerton, sir.
I know you have watched the arguments and the madness that has permeated this Aiming Forum in your fine pool shooting website for years and years and years.
Unfortunately, I have allowed myself to be baited into the nonsense by Dan White, Patrick Johnson, Joey Bautista, The JV, and Lou Figueroa.
You have even been kind and generous enough to give the CTE Aiming users a thread with specific rules to keep the arguments out of it. Rules that clearly state it is a positive testimonial thread. Yet, the troublemakers (as I call them) break your rules and invade the thread with comments designed to bait. And I, like a sucker, take the bait and get drawn into worthless "discussion" or arguments with them.
This argument will never end. The anti-cte people fire a shot...and the pro-cte people fire one back. I am guilty of responding..that is a weakness of mine.
On and on and on it goes....never ending. Year after year.
The anti-cte people and anti-aiming system people have successfully chased some very influential pool players out of this aiming forum through their arguments. I speak primarily of C.J. Wiley and Stan Shuffett. No telling how many other pool players stay away from this forum and do not share valuable information because of this fighting.
I do not think the two factions can EVER get along or agree to disagree, or just live and let live.
I personally think it would be beneficial to your site to just eliminate the Aiming Forum entirely. It serves no useful purpose, in my opinion.
Of course this is my opinion only and any final decisions regarding that will be up to you, the owner. Not to me, a simple member.
I'd love to see you do this, however as there are PLENTY of other educational threads available in other forums here in your great pool shooting site for people like me to visit.
I think perhaps you can read between the lines in my message here to you, sir. I have had it with all the trouble and arguing...I am beaten down.
Sincerely,
Peter Lowenstein
(Low500)
 
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I know this wasn’t directed at me so if my response is out of line please forgive me, but if I don’t like a thread, or the direction one is going, I simply ignore it…

Just sayin’…
 
First CTE is a System that to make it simple is a system.

Some love, some hate.

I would say let Aiming Sub-Forum live.

I personally made conscious decision to NOT POST, or READ NPR.🤣

Decision was hard, ignoring was hard, but blood pressure is lower.
 
Dear Mr. Howerton, owner of AZ Ice Cream Shoppe:

I hate your Rocky Road ice cream because it is bad for my health. I have a weakness in that I can't stop buying it because I like the taste and other people keep buying it even though I think it is bad for them. I sincerely believe you should remove Rocky Road from your menu because, like I said, I can't stop eating it and I don't think anybody else should be able to eat it, either.

Thank you.
 
I personally think it would be beneficial to your site to just eliminate the Aiming Forum entirely.
He gets the same benefit if you simply take your own advice and ignore this place (since you're so ready to be done with it). Aren't there thousands of CTErs on Facebook for you to trade testimonials with?

pj
chgo
 
He gets the same benefit if you simply take your own advice and ignore this place (since you're so ready to be done with it). Aren't there thousands of CTErs on Facebook for you to trade testimonials with?

pj
chgo
He wants to shut this place down because he can't control the content.
 
Dear Mr. Howerton, owner of AZ Ice Cream Shoppe:

I hate your Rocky Road ice cream because it is bad for my health. I have a weakness in that I can't stop buying it because I like the taste and other people keep buying it even though I think it is bad for them. I sincerely believe you should remove Rocky Road from your menu because, like I said, I can't stop eating it and I don't think anybody else should be able to eat it, either.

Thank you.
I'm guessing YOU will be able to get away with this post, I wonder why?
 
I'm guessing YOU will be able to get away with this post, I wonder why?
You realize that Low likes to post photos of Hitler and NoKo soldiers marching with no repurcussion while I was banned for repeating a joke told by Lisa Simpson about Goebbels, right?

Also, can't we give Mike a break? Hopefully he isn't logging in to the nonsense on AZ over the holiday weekend.
 
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Dear Mr. Howerton, owner of AZ Ice Cream Shoppe:

I hate your Rocky Road ice cream because it is bad for my health. I have a weakness in that I can't stop buying it because I like the taste and other people keep buying it even though I think it is bad for them. I sincerely believe you should remove Rocky Road from your menu because, like I said, I can't stop eating it and I don't think anybody else should be able to eat it, either.

Thank you.
DONT EAT IT
IF YOU THINK ITS BAD
FOR YOU
IF SOMEONE LIKES IT
DONT TELL THEM WHAT TO DO
just sayin
 
You realize that Low likes to post photos of Hitler and NoKo soldiers marching with no repurcussion while I was banned for repeating a joke told by Lisa Simpson about Goebbels, right?

Also, can't we give Mike a break? Hopefully he isn't logging in to the nonsense on AZ over the holiday weekend.
Was that your 2 hour ban cause I seriously don’t remember any others.
 
DONT EAT IT
IF YOU THINK ITS BAD
FOR YOU
IF SOMEONE LIKES IT
DONT TELL THEM WHAT TO DO
just sayin
Yes, tell that to Low who wants to take the forum away from everybody because he doesn't like it.
 
I had the 2 hour ban, a 3 month ban and I'm sure maybe one other for a short time. Don't recall. Haven't been banned for at least a few years now.
Didn’t someone leave a few years ago hmmmmm. You’ve certainly imo posted content worthy of a ban in the last few years.
 
Really? I recall him trying it in earnest and asking for some clarifications so he could understand the system better, then being hit with trolls calling him a knocker. Forgive and forget my man, he wasn't at fault.

EDIT: You know, many forums will just ban the drama queens, it makes for a much more peaceful place and also more interesting to have real discussion.
 
Dear Mr. Howerton, owner of AZ Ice Cream Shoppe:

I hate your Rocky Road ice cream because it is bad for my health. I have a weakness in that I can't stop buying it because I like the taste and other people keep buying it even though I think it is bad for them. I sincerely believe you should remove Rocky Road from your menu because, like I said, I can't stop eating it and I don't think anybody else should be able to eat it, either.

Thank you.
I worked in an Ice Cream Shoppe when I was in high school, and we served Rocky Road. I never have liked it.
 
You realize that Low likes to post photos of Hitler and NoKo soldiers marching with no repurcussion while I was banned for repeating a joke told by Lisa Simpson about Goebbels, right?

Also, can't we give Mike a break? Hopefully he isn't logging in to the nonsense on AZ over the holiday weekend.
Nope, I went out and enjoyed watching grown men throw each other around in a wrestling ring and I plan on spending the better part of the today, driving to Las Vegas to watch grown men roll balls around on cloth with a stick.

So, everyone needs to behave this afternoon. :)
 
Nope, I went out and enjoyed watching grown men throw each other around in a wrestling ring and I plan on spending the better part of the today, driving to Las Vegas to watch grown men roll balls around on cloth with a stick.

So, everyone needs to behave this afternoon. :)

Enjoy your Sun City vacation.👍
 
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