How you choose to treat your pool is your choice and your selection.

But advising people to do far more work than we have found necessary defeats the purpose of Pool Forum, which is helping make it EASY as well as effective to care for pools.

Over the many years of this forum (I'm here 14 years) and the thousands of people we've helped clear up algae blooms, we HAVE found effective means that allow people to solve their problem without having to hover over their pool every 2 hours. Think about is: It's kind of hard to maintain a pool if you can't work at your job because you're checking it every 2 hours. That's fine for work-at-homes and retirees, but not people who have to go to work every day to make a living.

We have a number of permanent pertinent threads on this forum that clearly explain, in simple language, time-tested ways to clear a pool of algae without going insane. I won't repeat them again.

Yes, you are entitled to maintain your pool any way you like. You are even entitle to explain how you do it. You can even advocate (some) alternate forms of treatment.

But you are NOT entitled to discard and dismiss the time-tested and proven methods advocated here and advise people NOT to follow them.

Now I am going to move this thread to the China Shop, which is the place where you are allowed to challenge our methods.