SpiderWebComm said:To All AZB CIA-Detectives:
1) I helped setup Allen's hotmail so he didn't have to. He and his wife share an aol acct - but he didn't know how to get into it.
2) I didn't have the time to help him setup an AZB account
3) He had to find the "U" on the keyboard to respond to another player's email
Stop trying to look past the apparent and always trying to look for the conspiracy theory - many times you end up missing the whole point. He just wanted to get his view out asap since some pros were waiting to hear from him. I was just the messenger. If someone here wants to call up AH to set him up on AZ, by all means do it. You'll def have to train him - because he's very, very bad on the computer. How can he be bad on the computer and still run valley forge? Maybe the aliens are helping him? Maybe the Men in Black? Maybe he has a secret satellite phone connection into NORAD?
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Allen is a good guy. I hope that everyone saying negative things about him would consider granting him the same forgiveness you might have needed back when you were a newbie. When you are inexperienced at using a forum, you have a point which you want to get across and you don't have the right instincts yet as to how it will be perceived.
We've seen it time and time again from pro players coming on here. They're not bad people and they don't have bad opinions - they just haven't invested the kind of time we have learning to use a forum responsibly. I guarantee you Allen was not being lazy nor condescending when he sent his message out via Spider. He would never try and upset some of pool's most ardent fans. If he had even an inkling of how this would play out so negatively, he either wouldn't have done it in the first place or he would have had Dawn set him up an account.
I can't defend Allen's position on this. I can only say that Allen Hopkins has done so much for this game (playing, promoting, and commentating), and on top of that, is truly a down-to-earth and approachable fellow. If he made a mistake with this post, so be it. But I know I've made mistakes on an internet forum, and if any of you have too, please try and cut the guy some slack.
- Steve