i think it should be in categories since i'm very biased towards shiny lights when comparing to more plain but still nice keyboards lol
I know we probably shouldn't break it down too much so maybe we can take a vote between TKL, Fullsize, TenKey, Lit, not lit or something? cause obviously we could come up with more categories than we need.
thought this was ocn for a minute
overclock.net, they also have a keyboard of the month filled with 2 toned ****ty pokers.
and honestly, all these keyboards are cookie cutter.
korean custom with <insert anything cherry here> <insert CC F row here)
topre with <insert cc, and the 8 keysets available here)
I'd put some of mine, but they're all too old :(overclock.net, they also have a keyboard of the month filled with 2 toned ****ty pokers.
and honestly, all these keyboards are cookie cutter.
korean custom with <insert anything cherry here> <insert CC F row here)
topre with <insert cc, and the 8 keysets available here)
Nominate some unique boards then. :)
overclock.net, they also have a keyboard of the month filled with 2 toned ****ty pokers.
and honestly, all these keyboards are cookie cutter.
korean custom with <insert anything cherry here> <insert CC F row here)
topre with <insert cc, and the 8 keysets available here)
I'd put some of mine, but they're all too old :(overclock.net, they also have a keyboard of the month filled with 2 toned ****ty pokers.
and honestly, all these keyboards are cookie cutter.
korean custom with <insert anything cherry here> <insert CC F row here)
topre with <insert cc, and the 8 keysets available here)
Nominate some unique boards then. :)
I nominate my own.
It isn't perfect and still the keycaps and labels could be improved, but it is pretty unique and outside the box. (Attachment Link)
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=67230.0I'm not seing the poll .
Poll thread is up!
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=67230.0I'm not seing the poll .
Poll thread is up!
I voted and when it submitted I could see the current votes, but then I refreshed and the results are no longer visible to me, is this on purpose or a glitch?
I'm honored to be nominated, but I definitely think last pilot has the best looking board of the month!GG :thumb:
I'll be entering for January with my Corsa so get ready to lose everyone :p
I voted and when it submitted I could see the current votes, but then I refreshed and the results are no longer visible to me, is this on purpose or a glitch?
I changed the settings so that the results will now be shown when the poll ends. ^-^
I voted and when it submitted I could see the current votes, but then I refreshed and the results are no longer visible to me, is this on purpose or a glitch?
I changed the settings so that the results will now be shown when the poll ends. ^-^
Thanks dude :) This is working "as designed" :D
Sorry, I'm just bumping this to ask if it can get moved to the new subforum please ^_^
<3 mods
this seriously did not need it's own child board.
sry katu
should just be archived within the other archived subboards
should just be archived within the other archived subboards
this seriously did not need it's own child board.
sry katu
should just be archived within the other archived subboards
should just be archived within the other archived subboards
I'm not following what you're saying here.
should just be archived within the other archived subboards
I'm not following what you're saying here.
we have an archive subforum already. this KOTM should have stayed one thread per month, with the prior months archived in the already created archive subforum. this just adds clutter to the main page. especially since it's something that isn't that big to begin with.
a sticky KOTM thread would have been better than a whole dedicated sub for something maybe 5 people participate in. but that's just my opinion.
I like how May is stickied when all the other threads are locked anyway so it can't get lost down the page :))
I think people shouldn't be allowed to suggest their own keyboards anymore. It just reeks of "pay attention to me now pay attention to me now" like we're 12. So desperate and thirsty for attention.
Other than that, it's been fun. Not sure if it needed it's own subforum but I honestly don't care since I spend 95% of my time in Spy or going through Making Stuff Together. As long as it's fun, I don't see why it's hurting anything.
I think people shouldn't be allowed to suggest their own keyboards anymore. It just reeks of "pay attention to me now pay attention to me now" like we're 12. So desperate and thirsty for attention.
Other than that, it's been fun. Not sure if it needed it's own subforum but I honestly don't care since I spend 95% of my time in Spy or going through Making Stuff Together. As long as it's fun, I don't see why it's hurting anything.
Sounds like you just don't like certain users.
I think people shouldn't be allowed to suggest their own keyboards anymore. It just reeks of "pay attention to me now pay attention to me now" like we're 12. So desperate and thirsty for attention.
Other than that, it's been fun. Not sure if it needed it's own subforum but I honestly don't care since I spend 95% of my time in Spy or going through Making Stuff Together. As long as it's fun, I don't see why it's hurting anything.
Sounds like you just don't like certain users.
Mmmm, I think he has a point. However, I don't think we are swamped with lots of people submitting their own boards, but I may change the rules next year.
I think people shouldn't be allowed to suggest their own keyboards anymore. It just reeks of "pay attention to me now pay attention to me now" like we're 12. So desperate and thirsty for attention.
Other than that, it's been fun. Not sure if it needed it's own subforum but I honestly don't care since I spend 95% of my time in Spy or going through Making Stuff Together. As long as it's fun, I don't see why it's hurting anything.
Sounds like you just don't like certain users.
Mmmm, I think he has a point. However, I don't think we are swamped with lots of people submitting their own boards, but I may change the rules next year.
I do see the point, but I also see the political point of that too. Hey, just get your pals on IRC to rock the vote your way too. I want it to be as honest and open to everyone. And then CPT blocks me thinking I was implying his opinion was against me. This whole thing is silly.
This is meant to transcend that. I have always hated cliques within internet communities, and with the voting process in place, I hope that it stops people just pushin their mate's boards, and at the end of the day, I have the say who goes forward for the main vote. Not that I would want to abuse those powers to change what the community wants, but I did have to use it after some investigation in March to prevent a fix for whatever reason.
I don't think it will ever get to a point where it will be the "cool kids" getting their boards waved around, especially with the amount of votes I am hoping to get.
Themes is a recurring, ahem, theme, so I may have to do that, while removing the pre-requisite for posted in the last calendar month.This makes sense. It seems silly that someone might hold off on sharing their project just because of the one month window. Themes would be better, maybe with a six month window.
Themes is a recurring, ahem, theme, so I may have to do that, while removing the pre-requisite for posted in the last calendar month.There are so many themes that could work. Brand, color, year, obscurity, layout, material, etc. Love this idea!
I have a suggestion to even out the problem with great keyboards getting in the shadow of hard to beat competitors certain monthts: a second chance poll with all the second place kbds of every month (before the keyboard of the year poll) where the three most voted kbds gets into the keyboard of the year poll. Thoughts on this?This is an excellent idea, like wildcard teams in the playoffs. Unless one of those runners-up have already won some other month, then their spot would be bumped to the next highest nominee.
I have a suggestion to even out the problem with great keyboards getting in the shadow of hard to beat competitors certain monthts: a second chance poll with all the second place kbds of every month (before the keyboard of the year poll) where the three most voted kbds gets into the keyboard of the year poll. Thoughts on this?This is an excellent idea, like wildcard teams in the playoffs. Unless one of those runners-up have already won some other month, then their spot would be bumped to the next highest nominee.
Along similar lines, what if multi-month winners are combined into a single entry for KOTY?
That same thought occurred to me shortly after I posted. I was trying to equalize everyone to one entry, but you're right, that just doubles up the votes for that person.I have a suggestion to even out the problem with great keyboards getting in the shadow of hard to beat competitors certain monthts: a second chance poll with all the second place kbds of every month (before the keyboard of the year poll) where the three most voted kbds gets into the keyboard of the year poll. Thoughts on this?This is an excellent idea, like wildcard teams in the playoffs. Unless one of those runners-up have already won some other month, then their spot would be bumped to the next highest nominee.
Along similar lines, what if multi-month winners are combined into a single entry for KOTY?
Good thinking!
I'm not sure if merging multi-month winners into a single entry would make the chance at the trophy any less good. I mean, if the two or more keyboards are sharing an entry, wouldn't that entry get the combined votes for those too? I believe separate entries would be more fair after all.
[url=http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/link][img]http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net[/img][/url]
So I'm testing out a cool way to help promote KOTM.
I wrote a small web app that generates image links for Keyboard of the Month. For this month I went with an MS-DOS WordPerfect theme:
(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net) (http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/link)
The cool thing about this is that I can set up the app to always show the current month and link to the current thread. So all you'd have to do is drop the bbcode in your signature once, and it will update itself.
Also, to help avoid banner blindness, we can make the whole thing basically disappear (1x1 pixel image) when we're not using it. Believe it or not, there's an image below here:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=empty)
I have full control over fonts and colors as well. Here's one I made for October:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=october)
And an oldschool gameboy-style nomination link:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=nominations-december)
Let me know what you think. If you want to help me test it, put this code in your signature:Code: [Select][url=http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/link][img]http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net[/img][/url]
So I'm testing out a cool way to help promote KOTM.
I wrote a small web app that generates image links for Keyboard of the Month. For this month I went with an MS-DOS WordPerfect theme:
(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net) (http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/link)
The cool thing about this is that I can set up the app to always show the current month and link to the current thread. So all you'd have to do is drop the bbcode in your signature once, and it will update itself.
Also, to help avoid banner blindness, we can make the whole thing basically disappear (1x1 pixel image) when we're not using it. Believe it or not, there's an image below here:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=empty)
I have full control over fonts and colors as well. Here's one I made for October:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=october)
And an oldschool gameboy-style nomination link:Show Image(http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/test.php?config=nominations-december)
Let me know what you think. If you want to help me test it, put this code in your signature:Code: [Select][url=http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net/link][img]http://kotm.lab.nickbair.net[/img][/url]
This is really cool. :D
Edit: It would be a lot more complicated, but having the ability to edit colors and fonts for ourselves would be awesome. I like the way the blue one looks by itself, but I'm not the biggest fan of how it ended up looking in my sig (I prefer more bright colors ). If I could customize mine to be CMYP I would love it even more. :-*
I figure the colors will change each month, to help promote each month's poll. People look right past something once they get used to it.
It's also not very straightforward to change fonts because you're working with x/y coordinates, filenames, etc. So I don't know how I would go about that.
But I appreciate the input because it didn't occur to me that people might prefer certain colors in their sig.
Does Kurplop's unfinished board belong in the running this month?
We did only have four nominees this month
This "no self-nomination" rule seems very silly to me, I don't understand the motivation. IMO, should be closer to a film festival where you enter your keyboard. Did I miss the reasoning behind that somewhere?
This "no self-nomination" rule seems very silly to me, I don't understand the motivation. IMO, should be closer to a film festival where you enter your keyboard. Did I miss the reasoning behind that somewhere?
It was more a thought of; "If it's good enough, someone else will nominate it" sort of thing. I'm not sure if that is the reason why we are getting less nominees this month, but it could be a factor.
This "no self-nomination" rule seems very silly to me, I don't understand the motivation. IMO, should be closer to a film festival where you enter your keyboard. Did I miss the reasoning behind that somewhere?
It was more a thought of; "If it's good enough, someone else will nominate it" sort of thing. I'm not sure if that is the reason why we are getting less nominees this month, but it could be a factor.
I've posted a few boards over the months that I thought were pretty cool but never saw a nomination. It's incredibly likely that people just weren't interested, in which case that's fine, but it's also possible that people simply forgot about them. I'm not fussed either way, but allowing people to "remind" others about their boards might be good.
I've posted a few boards over the months that I thought were pretty cool but never saw a nomination. It's incredibly likely that people just weren't interested, in which case that's fine, but it's also possible that people simply forgot about them. I'm not fussed either way, but allowing people to "remind" others about their boards might be good.
This "no self-nomination" rule seems very silly to me, I don't understand the motivation. IMO, should be closer to a film festival where you enter your keyboard. Did I miss the reasoning behind that somewhere?
It was more a thought of; "If it's good enough, someone else will nominate it" sort of thing. I'm not sure if that is the reason why we are getting less nominees this month, but it could be a factor.
I've posted a few boards over the months that I thought were pretty cool but never saw a nomination. It's incredibly likely that people just weren't interested, in which case that's fine, but it's also possible that people simply forgot about them. I'm not fussed either way, but allowing people to "remind" others about their boards might be good.
Yeah true. I was just hoping that if someone liked a board enough they should remember it. I should probably be a bit more lenient with it really and allow it.
If I see something that really grabs my attention, before the month's thread is created, I will bookmark that post. Easy to link it when the thread starts.
I think the heart of the problem of this whole thing is, from my point of view, is that anyone can have a keyboard and they are all special to the people that have them. I made a calendar of the keyboards I thought were special to me.
I'm happy and content with that. As far as I am concerned I already have my keyboard of the year.
Why make it a contest? There is no contest.
I think the heart of the problem of this whole thing is, from my point of view, is that anyone can have a keyboard and they are all special to the people that have them. I made a calendar of the keyboards I thought were special to me.
I'm happy and content with that. As far as I am concerned I already have my keyboard of the year.
Why make it a contest? There is no contest.
So with a prototype winning we have a new rule to discuss - is the final version elligible when it's done or do new pics go against this win? I still don't think the prototype should have been in at all (even though I voted for it :)))
An idea on how to get people more aware of the monthly polls. As it stands, you can't set a reminder as each month gets it's own thread. I do think that each month having its own thread is a good thing, but maybe a list of the months in a separate thread that people can watch/notify on.
A simple idea in the hope of getting more interest - could you add a note in the OP of the Nomination and Voting threads saying to post as well as voting, so they stay in spy longer?
There's a 'Notify' button at the top of the subforum, I don't use notifications but just clicked it and it asked if I'm sure I want to be notified of new threads so hopefully that works? I've clicked it, you post a thread and see what happens :thumb:An idea on how to get people more aware of the monthly polls. As it stands, you can't set a reminder as each month gets it's own thread. I do think that each month having its own thread is a good thing, but maybe a list of the months in a separate thread that people can watch/notify on.
Do you reckon if i posted in the Announcement thread for each vote, then deleted the posts, then posted again, would that work for notifications?
Only problem is peak time is evening in the US when you're asleep - that's when it needs bumping.A simple idea in the hope of getting more interest - could you add a note in the OP of the Nomination and Voting threads saying to post as well as voting, so they stay in spy longer?
Yeahhhhh, I could do that, but I don't really want people to just spam "Voted!" but I could post every couple of days in there to remind people instead?
Would there be any appetite for adding something to the header of the forum? A blurb above the navbar would catch attention, but I've no idea how widely people have access to modify the site to that degree.
GH has always been very poor from a UX perspective in regards to drawing attention to Announcements, given not everyone uses the Home forum tree to navigate (I use mainly Watched, Unread, and Spy). Might be worth raising as an idea more broadly than just KOTM, but I think it would fit that use nicely.
Would there be any appetite for adding something to the header of the forum? A blurb above the navbar would catch attention, but I've no idea how widely people have access to modify the site to that degree.
GH has always been very poor from a UX perspective in regards to drawing attention to Announcements, given not everyone uses the Home forum tree to navigate (I use mainly Watched, Unread, and Spy). Might be worth raising as an idea more broadly than just KOTM, but I think it would fit that use nicely.
Have I missed something?
Is this still a thing? Last thread is for October nominations, and we are well on the way to January now.
Have I missed something?
Is this still a thing? Last thread is for October nominations, and we are well on the way to January now.
Yeah that's my bad. I'm sorting some posts out this week.
Cool, thanks.
Didn't mean to call you out or something, but I'm not around as much as I used to be and thought I'd missed out on something.
This section is great because it shows the cream of the crop of latest keyboards and mods for those of us who do not have the time to scroll through all the media threads :)
I've just worked out why this doesn't work very well. As I browse today when I see a cool board but can't nominate it because we're still looking for November nominations. Clearly the nominations shouldn't close immediately at the end of the month but could the next month's nomination thread be live too?
:) Hello old friend. I just wanted to say thank you for keeping up with these awards. It's nice to come back and browse through the years/months that I missed.