Why is Charlton Life so so good?

Foxycafc

My job as a football shirt seller often involves me going into fan forums and asking for details about various shirts, matches, players, signature identification, so on and so on. And they're all shite! Two threads a week, three active users, etc. Why is Charlton Life so massive? It's bigger than a lot of Premier League forums too!There's like 1000 different threads all going at the same time, there's forum micro-celebrities, there's in jokes, there's a nice community spirit. It feels like honestly I could bin off all other social media and just use this and I wouldn't really miss out on anything. Why does this forum stand out in this way?

Alwaysneil

Ask gribbo to look into it for you

BalladMan

Are you trying to sell something by buttering us up? 

Henry Irving

The way Arsenal fans are tolerated

fenlandaddick

Hats off for doing a job and your A levels 💪

ElfsborgAddick

Foxycafc said:

My job as a football shirt seller often involves me going into fan forums and asking for details about various shirts, matches, players, signature identification, so on and so on. And they're all shite! Two threads a week, three active users, etc. Why is Charlton Life so massive? It's bigger than a lot of Premier League forums too!There's like 1000 different threads all going at the same time, there's forum micro-celebrities, there's in jokes, there's a nice community spirit. It feels like honestly I could bin off all other social media and just use this and I wouldn't really miss out on anything. Why does this forum stand out in this way?

OwlsTalk is very active.

Fumbluff

ElfsborgAddick said:

Foxycafc said:

My job as a football shirt seller often involves me going into fan forums and asking for details about various shirts, matches, players, signature identification, so on and so on. And they're all shite! Two threads a week, three active users, etc. Why is Charlton Life so massive? It's bigger than a lot of Premier League forums too!There's like 1000 different threads all going at the same time, there's forum micro-celebrities, there's in jokes, there's a nice community spirit. It feels like honestly I could bin off all other social media and just use this and I wouldn't really miss out on anything. Why does this forum stand out in this way?

OwlsTalk is very active.

We’d expect nothing less. They are massive

fenlandaddick

Fumbluff said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Foxycafc said:

My job as a football shirt seller often involves me going into fan forums and asking for details about various shirts, matches, players, signature identification, so on and so on. And they're all shite! Two threads a week, three active users, etc. Why is Charlton Life so massive? It's bigger than a lot of Premier League forums too!There's like 1000 different threads all going at the same time, there's forum micro-celebrities, there's in jokes, there's a nice community spirit. It feels like honestly I could bin off all other social media and just use this and I wouldn't really miss out on anything. Why does this forum stand out in this way?

OwlsTalk is very active.

We’d expect nothing less. They are massive

Always a hoot

cfgs

Because of the outstanding long standing posters that educate and bring humour, it is a balm to all life's suffering.  All except me, as I am just a prize plum.

Braziliance

"It's better than yours, it's better than yoursss, our footie forum, it's better than yours" 

Uboat

I agree with the OP. When you visit other forums you wonder how they put up with it. They’re either dead or completely overrun with people starting variations of the same thread. They look shit too. 

carly burn

Well.I hear forum magnate Viktor Maes from Belgium is close to finalising a deal to take Charlton life into his family of forums across Europe where this forum will be able to integrate and share opinions with forums in his current portfolio.

These include the likes of; The Budapest menopausal women Net and Goat herders across the Alps chat.
Admin will be led by Cat Smears, Maes former press secretary (old bit on the side)

Good times!

Foxycafc

fenlandaddick said:

Hats off for doing a job and your A levels 💪

It's been a fucking massive distraction from work unfortunately, even now when I've got 5 exams to go in the next 2 weeks, I can't help but keep buying and selling stuff. It's like an addiction lol. Taking a year out before I go to uni and I'm really hoping I can scale it up to something massive, obvs not expecting to do it full time, and will have to get a 'proper job' to make some 'real money', but if I can get a website up and running next year I'd be over the moon

PaddyP17

I have a boring, possibly accurate theory.

We were big in the early 2000s as a club, before the advent of true social media, and when forums were the best way of keeping up to date with the particulars of a football club. We weren't so big, however, that we lost a sense of community and who everyone was.

We got relegated pre social media, and those main posters stuck around (and still do), and this became the best news outlet and discussion forum during the years we had less publicity. And it's sort of stuck that way. 

Basically, this forum peaked a while back, but because of our loyalty as football fans, *maintains* that peak.

You can compare us to Fly Me To The Moon (Boro), Owlstalk (Sheff Wed) and North Stand Chat (Brighton) in many respects. Also, we have a loyal, hardcore fanbase where people won't often drift away.

Also, this place is properly funny sometimes. There have been some real... highlights, for instance

golfaddick

Because some people are masochists or narcissists and like to be noticed....👋👋👋

stoneroses19

Foxycafc said:

My job as a football shirt seller often involves me going into fan forums and asking for details about various shirts, matches, players, signature identification, so on and so on. And they're all shite! Two threads a week, three active users, etc. Why is Charlton Life so massive? It's bigger than a lot of Premier League forums too!There's like 1000 different threads all going at the same time, there's forum micro-celebrities, there's in jokes, there's a nice community spirit. It feels like honestly I could bin off all other social media and just use this and I wouldn't really miss out on anything. Why does this forum stand out in this way?

That's exactly what I've done. No need for X, Facebook, Instagram, when we have a great community here with threads on any subject available. 

I receive Charlton news from the clubs official WhatsApp channel, which is basically what they post on the other social media channels anyway. 

KiwiValley

It's not good. That's why i barely exceed 80-100 visits a day.

Baldybonce

The layout of the site is so much better than other forums.

The diverse range of subjects covered is my particular favourite.

Gribbo

Baldybonce said:

The layout of the site is so much better than other forums.

The diverse range of subjects covered is my particular favourite.

Cheers mate. Means a lot 

Bedsaddick

It’s because it has the best Christmas TV movie recommendations…

eastterrace6168

Was the promote successful @Foxycafc…😉

LargeAddick

For me the best thing about CL is that people can post on the ‘How Are You Doing?’ thread without fear of being judged or labelled etc and I personally think it’s humbling that people feel they can share their problems and sometimes their darkest thoughts with, in most cases, complete strangers. You won’t find that on any other football forum.

usetobunkin

AppyAddick

Because it's the only way I can talk to @Callumcafc... 

Foxycafc

eastterrace6168 said:

Was the promote successful @Foxycafc…😉

Nope! 🙂‍↔️🤣

fenlandaddick

We need a counterbalance for the turgid shite that has been served up to us on and off the pitch at Charlton. When something you love is in distress a social outlet is the perfect antidote.

Most of us (I assume) also have short attention spans and are all on the promote quest; so here we are posting everyday 😄.

We are quite a friendly bunch, that always tends to help create a strong community .

It reminds me a little of the local pub, but without the open fire, beer , bar food and free peanuts. But in the sense of topics covers and jokes and chit-chat.

AFKABartram

Think @carly burnis on to something, we’d definitely be open to a strategic link up with Eastern European menopausal women 

jimmymelrose

Not wanting to downplay how good this site is but I’ve often asked myself instead ’why are other fans forums so bad?' I don’t look at them much but when I do they all look so messy. 

In addition to presentation,  the content on here is generally much better too. Often, posters take the time to write thought out paragraphs in a cohesive manner.

The only things I don’t like are:

1. Links to X 

2. Threads getting taken down too easily when there has been no good reason. A topic may have the potential to be inflammatory but so long as it hasn’t become so then let it be please.

3. The virtual ban on discussing politics.

4. Too many uses of ’would of’😉

eastterrace6168

Foxycafc said:

eastterrace6168 said:

Was the promote successful @Foxycafc…😉

Nope! 🙂‍↔️🤣

Hang in there mate, AFKA don't get up till 10.00...🙄

Scoham

jimmymelrose said:

Not wanting to downplay how good this site is but I’ve often asked myself instead ’why are other fans forums so bad?' I don’t look at them much but when I do they all look so messy. 

In addition to presentation,  the content on here is generally much better too. Often, posters take the time to write thought out paragraphs in a cohesive manner.

The only things I don’t like are:

1. Links to X 

2. Threads getting taken down too easily when there has been no good reason. A topic may have the potential to be inflammatory but so long as it hasn’t become so then let it be please.

3. The virtual ban on discussing politics.

4. Too many uses of ’would of’😉

I would of embedded links to X, but it stopped working a few years ago.

killerandflash

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