Death Threads

cafcfan

Okay, I realise that this is going to be contentious but I'm getting really quite fed up with them.
Do we really need an RIP thread for every musician, author, politician, etc etc that's left this mortal coil?
Can't we just have a "Deaths thread" - a bit like the rumours thread where people can post RIPs if they so wish?
Cos this site is becoming a bit like "Charlton Death" rather than "Charlton Life".
I do see the circumstances of Drummer Rigby's murder as being in a different category from the mundane deaths of semi-famous individuals; individuals connected to CAFC are also different - particularly as they probably won't hit the national news.
But I see we now have a Nelson Mandela's nearly dead thread (although not one for Prince Philip). Reports for these events are all over the news anyway so what's the point of posting on here?

razil

RIP death threads..

DaveMehmet

My thoughts are with the posters

cafctom

Don't think they would be too much of a problem if certain trolls didn't get on their high horses in those threads and act like absolute prats.

Talal

'Charlton Death' haha

ThreadKiller

Puts it all into perspective...

_MrDick

cafcfan said:

Okay, I realise that this is going to be contentious but I'm getting really quite fed up with them.
Do we really need an RIP thread for every musician, author, politician, etc etc that's left this mortal coil?
Can't we just have a "Deaths thread" - a bit like the rumours thread where people can post RIPs if they so wish?
Cos this site is becoming a bit like "Charlton Death" rather than "Charlton Life".
I do see the circumstances of Drummer Rigby's murder as being in a different category from the mundane deaths of semi-famous individuals; individuals connected to CAFC are also different - particularly as they probably won't hit the national news.
But I see we now have a Nelson Mandela's nearly dead thread (although not one for Prince Philip). Reports for these events are all over the news anyway so what's the point of posting on here?

If you're getting fed up with them - Simples - Don't open the thread

razil

for a minute I thought it was about threatening behaviour, then about cool trousers..



OK it is Monday

AFKABartram

I read it at first as Death Threats !

JT

RIP

charltonkeston

They all seem a little on the fake emotion side to me. People I've never met (or their families) dont need me sticking a meaning less RIP on a football site.

maybe_baby

Agree to a point but best not to view if they piss you off...it's not like you can open them by accident.

oohaahmortimer

makes you realise how precious life is and that football isn't the be all and end all

DaveMehmet

It's the threads they leave behind that I feel sorry for.

Curb_It

I agree. I haven't heard of half of them. But I do as suggested and don't open.

Chunes

There was a thread on this same subject a while ago: RIP Threads

I do as the others do, I don't open them. There's something about a lot of people just typing RIP on a forum thread that I find unsettling and a little insincere.

A-R-T-H-U-R

Wont someone please think of the children?

kentaddick

i think its far more insincere to have a generic thread for "anyone" who pops their clogs rather than having a dedicated tribute thread.

MrOneLung

I blame:

13 years of Labour misrule
The right wing fascist Tory government
Margaret Thatcher
Ken Livingstone
The EU
Celtic
Rangers
Jim Davidson
Pardew
Dowie
Kevin Muscat

Please select as appropriate

Chris_from_Sidcup

AFKABartram said:

I read it at first as Death Threats !

Ha ha so did i. I thought some insults on here had gone too far and admin were going to have to step in!

Brendan_O_Connell

Valley McMoist said:

cafcfan said:

Okay, I realise that this is going to be contentious but I'm getting really quite fed up with them.
Do we really need an RIP thread for every musician, author, politician, etc etc that's left this mortal coil?
Can't we just have a "Deaths thread" - a bit like the rumours thread where people can post RIPs if they so wish?
Cos this site is becoming a bit like "Charlton Death" rather than "Charlton Life".
I do see the circumstances of Drummer Rigby's murder as being in a different category from the mundane deaths of semi-famous individuals; individuals connected to CAFC are also different - particularly as they probably won't hit the national news.
But I see we now have a Nelson Mandela's nearly dead thread (although not one for Prince Philip). Reports for these events are all over the news anyway so what's the point of posting on here?

If you're getting fed up with them - Simples - Don't open the thread

This!

BIG_ROB

MrOneLung said:

I blame:

13 years of Labour misrule
The right wing fascist Tory government
Margaret Thatcher
Ken Livingstone
The EU
Celtic
Rangers
Jim Davidson
Pardew
Dowie
Kevin Muscat

Please select as appropriate

I don't, I blame Dean Kiely!

Riviera

Brendan_O_Connell said:

Valley McMoist said:

cafcfan said:

Okay, I realise that this is going to be contentious but I'm getting really quite fed up with them.
Do we really need an RIP thread for every musician, author, politician, etc etc that's left this mortal coil?
Can't we just have a "Deaths thread" - a bit like the rumours thread where people can post RIPs if they so wish?
Cos this site is becoming a bit like "Charlton Death" rather than "Charlton Life".
I do see the circumstances of Drummer Rigby's murder as being in a different category from the mundane deaths of semi-famous individuals; individuals connected to CAFC are also different - particularly as they probably won't hit the national news.
But I see we now have a Nelson Mandela's nearly dead thread (although not one for Prince Philip). Reports for these events are all over the news anyway so what's the point of posting on here?

If you're getting fed up with them - Simples - Don't open the thread

This!

Well I find seeing RIP quite depressing.

kentaddick

MrOneLung said:

I blame:

13 years of Labour misrule
The right wing fascist Tory government
Margaret Thatcher
Ken Livingstone
The EU
Celtic
Rangers
Jim Davidson
Pardew
Dowie
Kevin Muscat

Please select as appropriate

haha, you know i think you've named all of the things people get pissy about on this forum!

AFKABartram

@cafcfan

Short of time so apologies for short reply.

I can see where you are coming from, as in most cases they hold no value in fitting into other core subject matter on the site.

However, the survey we did last year of 750 members showed they were surprisingly more popular than I personally thought they might be, and they were also mentioned a bit in the things people like most about the site as an example of the broad church of subject matter.

Adding RIP to some unrelated obscure person is a bit pointless, when someone adds a memory, or a connection (which surprisingly happens a lot), then it starts becoming interesting.

So agree, they don't fully fit in, buy they provide a decent spread of subject debate so they definitely stay for now, as long as it doesn't get too widespread. Just maybe only ads them if you think it could lead to an interesting thread, and certainly not when someone in the public eye dies.

razil

what next banning fence posts...

see what I did there?

stonewallpenalty

For à morbed thread it has had me laughing.

stonewallpenalty

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Richard J

I would be sad to see them disappear or grouped into one thread.

Today there was one about Donna Hartley who as far as I know had no CAFC connections but was the pin up girl of British Athletics back in the day.

As I do not always read a daily paper it is unlikely that I would have heard about this as quickly had I not signed in to CL this morning.

JiMMy 85

When people have something to say, or share about the deceased, then they make sense. People want to be with other people when someone dies, that's standard. Although just posting RIP never really makes much sense to me. At least when it comes to movie stars and musicians. When it's a member of the forum it's rather different. The RIPs would mean a lot to the family members who stand a good chance of seeing the thread.

Macronate