r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/ripster55 • Jan 25 '15
[meta] Announcing new subreddit: /r/truemk
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=68031.07
Jan 25 '15
°sigh° Damn it, I just wanna talk about a fun hobby without people getting stuck on who is better than what or why.
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u/PwnNarwhal Jan 25 '15
Which is why I made it. I don't want people to see the arguing
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Jan 25 '15
Nope, sorry, I am not feeling it. Why fork again? Let's work so that where the community currently is becomes better. This is just running away from the problems, not creating any solutions for it. We are almost 60,000 strong here. let's make the place here more welcoming. Splitting is rarely a good solution, and will only result in more fracture in the community.
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u/GRSimon Jan 25 '15
stopping arguing on the internet is a lofty goal, if you're trying to reduce drama that's understandable, but without getting into the specifics of what that's referring to I think the off-topic threads/comments/opinions stem from there only being so much people can talk about keyboards. When someone does come here to share topics related to the core nature of this subreddit they aren't ignored, and even outside vendors are welcomed when promoting a new product.
anyway I'm not against the new sub, am just sharing what I believe is the situation here.
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u/GRSimon Jan 25 '15
Seems like a lost cause. This sub-reddit is pretty neutral, there isn't an agenda against other forums other than some tongue-and-cheek comments and remarks.
I think there is some misconception too that everyone here agrees with u/ripster55's POV, when really he gets flack like everyone else when he shares an unfavorable view. People also don't always consider that ripster posts A LOT, so he is going to be more recognized and been seen as an influential figure in the community for that reason alone, he puts in his time.
Some GHers (I don't think most) would assume there's a strong bias towards their forum because when certain members and vendors are called out on their behaviour they aren't accustomed to it (because in their enclosed environment where unfavorable views can be disregarded/muted) thus they need to claim reddit's environment is sooo toxic. And yea most here don't share their views on how wrong the K3KC copies are. I think the support for K3KC also is largely due to the lack of transparency in their raffles, but that's a whole other topic.
Last thing is this subreddit is pretty large for a niche commodity, I don't think everyone recognizes this either. The fact that we've been able to attain such a large subscriber base thus far says something as other communities with arguably a larger consumer market share aren't at this level.
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u/Cesque Jan 25 '15
one thing i agree with them on: there's so many 'newbie' posts here. it seems every other post is a 'what keyboard should I buy?' post (we have a sticky for that, people!) or a potato quality phone picture of their new keyboard which everyone has seen before.
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Jan 25 '15
Yep, you're right! Now let's find solutions to that. What would help with the situation in your opinion?
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u/GRSimon Jan 25 '15
that's true, although another public subforum would likely have the same issue, it's a reddit-wide occurrence. The only solution that comes to mind would be a subforum that specializes in only a certain subset or aspect of mechanicalkeyboard (keycaps, keyboard-modding) which would deter a lot of the newbie posts. However by being more inclusive and allowing those types of posts the community here does grow larger, which does allow this place to the landing place for all things mechanical keyboards, both good and bad. The good can outweigh the bad/mundane posts.
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u/estagiannand Jan 25 '15
Seriously? What's the point--to try to drive traffic back to a GH-sort-of-affiliated-but-claimed-not-to-be subreddit from a competitor they created? Whatever the history, Ripster is doing good work here and everyone on all sides would be better off letting the past go.
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u/NinjaVodou Jan 25 '15
that way people on Reddit can be introduced to mechanical keyboards, without the bias of which forums are better.
What do forums have to do with people being introduced to mechanical keyboards.
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u/ripster55 Jan 25 '15
r/TrueMK
Personally I prefer r/TrueMechKeyboards but believe free speech is good