When my daughter was born, I made the decision that corporal punishment would not be part of my raising her. That said, I won't take that kind of abuse either. I was tempted to say that TV shows like this is staged, but it's kind of hard to get a kid to do this on demand.
Raise the kid proper and the first is not necessary as the second is highly unlikely to occur at all.
Back to topic though: while I would not discourage you Ripster, from creating a more beginner-friendly type info wiki/guide, I do have this to add as a consideration:
When I have spoken (written) of how quickly I fell in here, I have always said "almost" immediately. I joined OCN maybe only a month before GH, which I found through a referral link (thanks BRODIE337!) in a reply to my thread re: wtb after the Mechanical Keyboard Guide there triggered a memory/epiphany (well, at least the first few of the bazillion pages that I read of that thread). But Geekhack was definitely some "next-level" ****. By the time I actually registered here, I did so using a model M; I had already exiled the craptastic wireless M$ rubber dome and knew there was no going back.
But my first visit here was only a brief drive-by via the link provided by brodie337 before returning to the thread I started at OCN for a simpler solution. I did get a little frightened/overwhelmed by the intense detail & the minutiae about the actuation force and graphs and keycaps, and though I poked around a little, I didn't register or even realize that I might; I was still trying to get my bearings on the present day offerings in terms of similar typing experience with what I knew from the past. My first reaction to this site was that it was a bit too technical to be of real practical use to me (at the time.) I did note that one of the best sources at OCN I had discovered (-Phaedrus- through his excellent and highly informative reviews/guides on power supplies) was also present here, which was a +1 rep for Geekhack right there, I didn't have the experience to relate to most of the discussion here before actually getting my hands back on a Model M.
*So thanks, Manyak*- it was your reply and sound info on the M, F, Unicomps audio/actuation correlation on that OCN wtb query that originally sorted me out... It was immediately useful and narrowed the focus of my search considerably, especially once discovering that the model F was not particularly available. It wasn't until after typing on several Model Ms that arrived in varied conditions that the curiosity and passion arose which then drove me to reconsult that thread specifically to find the link back here again. The second time around I had a basis of comparison and a better grasp of what was being discussed enough to catch the flavor of the atmosphere as well and that's when I knew I was going to stay; the Geekhack beast had awakened.
I daresay even should a mechanical keyboard sub-forum gain a following at OCN, it will not, I think, stand in competition with GH, but likely serve as a stepping stone to it. I had just committed myself to a course of participating in such forums as a necessary exercise for myself and my writing (hence the need for a decent keyboard) when I registered there, and though I have managed to stack up a post count of about 80 since I joined, that is less than a fifth of the post count I've racked up here after signing up a month later.
In fact, I almost left OCN two weeks after signing up, and largely stayed for the purpose of setting a better example and the opportunity to deliberately exercise personal growth in terms of patience. One of the first things I noticed here, and that my partner also commented on when I talk about GH, was that people here actually pay attention and read the stuff that gets posted before replying. They "listen" with the same level of detail that they discuss the minutiae of peripheral devices. On OCN... not so much, even with specific criteria addressed in an OP. It serves a purpose, to be sure, but maybe its purpose is best served as a pre-cursor to that "next-level ****". Which then allows for a site like this to remain on that next level.
While every site wants to be attractive to its potential audience, there is also a tremendous value in catering to a target segment of that audience rather than simply going for mass appeal. It isn't necessarily a bad or unwelcome thing if the sweet spot is a little bit narrow. Sort of like the difference between a general practitioner and a neurosurgeon - you want each for different reasons. There is something to be said for specialization, especially if you need some surgical work on or around the neocortex.
