I think it's understandable that different people have and would have different experiences and opinions about Ripster or anyone else. I'm an easy going guy and I pretty much ignored things I wasn't interested in and looked for information amongst the noise. Ripster certainly had a lot of good information, there's no doubt. And I should add, for those that joined ~2 years ago when I did, Ripster was dishing out helpful information left and right.... always the first to respond, and they weren't (all) snarky things and lego pictures. Later on things got a little crazy the noise started to drown out the information. (FWIW, this is the period when I became least active.) But NOW, at least for me, the information in threads is much easier to *see* than before. It's a forum so things will get off topic occasionally, but overall you have to have *some* kind of structure or it turns into a circus.
That's just *my* opinion. I don't have any personal problem with Ripster or anyone else
except for one mother ****ing ***** ho bag land lord named Debbie that stole $4k from me 5 years ago. She can go to hell. Ripster can go to Reddit. Places to discuss mechanical keyboards increase, the toys we love grow, everyone is happy!