I am a regular visitor to this site, have been for a few years, and find it both informative and entertaining. Living in exile in the West Country, it is an invaluable source of rumour and opinion about the club we all love. Now maybe I am getting old, but I find I am more and more uncomfortable with the aggressive abuse that so many threads seem to now descend into. Maybe it was always like this, but I feel it is getting worse. Many posters are verbally abused, just for holding a different opinion, and the line between friendly banter and abuse seems to be crossed so quickly. Supporters from other clubs, even with reasonable views, are now often attacked for just voicing their opinion, maybe I am naive, but I always considered Charlton and its supporters were just that bit different from your stereotypical football fans. In fact I always felt a bit proud of that feeling. The vitriolic abuse that goes on here, even sometimes puts me off reading threads, which is a shame, am I alone in wishing that people on this brilliant site, were just a bit more polite with each other?
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I still read but rarely post now.
Victim of its own success I suppose.
It's worse during the close season too.
Agressive is a strong word to use when describing a thread
I think people are too sensitive sometimes
It shouldn't stop anyone posting of someone is being a dick head tell them and crack on
Seriously, help us. What can we do ? I doubt you'll find anyone who put collectively out as much effort into moderating a forum as we do. A
s I said in one of my frequent moans to try and improve standards, it isn't a case of one or two letting things down, its that standards have seemingly fallen completely across the board impacting hundreds. How do you realistically manage that ?
We moderate, we speak to people privately, and we regular issue public messages. We try and coax and give benefit of doubt as much as possible, and ban as few as possible. Just banning a few people simply won't work.
As I've said before, Facebook and Twitter has changes the way people post onto the internet. It's mainly built on negatives, moans or abuse, and that has spread onto forums and article comments.
So please, if you have ideas on how to.improve things, please email admin@charltonlife.com
On the flip side, this site has never been more popular in terms of views, visitors and comments, so perhaps things aren't as bad as made out.
As I've also said before, you do have to have a certain element of a thick skin with these sort of things. With the amount of people posting, you are going to get a complete cross range, from teens to pensioners, and people from all different walks of life, with different humour. You do have to learn to read what you want, and ignore those you have little time for.
Twitter certainly has, but I don't think Facebook has changed posting for the worse. If anything, comment sections on websites that use FB log ins tend to be more toned down than, in particular, YouTube. FB doesn't allow anonymity, which reduces abuse. If we were forced to sign in using our real names and addresses I'm sure there's be less abuse!!
Also think we have had a change in demographic and have more younger posters who are happier with the more confrontational approach that twitter fosters (I can't remember the survey results and this is a generalisation of course)...plus we have seriously slid back in the swearing tolerance.
One observation I would make is that a number of people have posted for many years here and elsewhere on places like Netaddicks before that.
As a consequence what might seem aggressive to the casual, unfamiliar observer is just a frank exchange of views between the participants. Off_it and I, to quote one example, are partial to the odd spat from time to time but there's nothing in it and it may, on occasion, be alcoholically induced!
Another observation is that some are just naturally confrontational in style
The same standards should apply on a forum as apply when meeting some-one face to face.
It may not be achievable, but I agree with this.
read the post i said if someone is being a dick head then tell them that they are acting like a dick head and continue posting
dont let people who are on a forum stop you
The over reaction to comments is amazing on here just ignotre them and move on why let it bother your life
`Banter'...I absolutely detest the word. Lets face reality...it's cheap, poor quality, low level abuse dressed up as something else.
Admin are doing all they can, i.e is someone is acting in this way they warn and then ban them. Unfortunately, there's little more that can be done. Overall, this forum is still vastly different from other Charlton ones out there and this becomes obvious to even the densest numbskull who comes on here and starts posting inappropriate rubbish - they usually don't like it anyway and naff off elsewhere!
So persevere and have faith, things will get better...as others have said, the summer makes things worse. Be comforted that many feel the same way as you and most probably form the silent majority on this site. If you look at the big picture, this is by far the most civilised outpost of Charlton banter anywhere on the net and will continue to be so. Class always tells in the end!
Which isn't really necessary.
Entertaining because some people cant take banter
Entertaining because so many people feel the need to stick there beak in where it isnt needed
Entertaining because no one is allowed to hint out there 'sauce'
I'm partial to a bit of HP...
;-)