Gotta love forums, you state a fact and get called a troll for it. How is Topre NOT a rubber dome keyboard? Apparently using a rubber dome as the main mechanism for key actuation does not make it rubber dome?
You can argue whether it is mechanical or not, I don't care anymore, mechanical is a retarded term. But you CANNOT argue that it is not a rubber dome.
Mechanical is not a precise word as it is used today generally with respect to keyboards. In my view "mechanical keyboard" just means a keyboard with better/nicer/more complicated switches than standard rubber domes. Topre switches qualify under this definition -- they are definitely included under the rubber dome umbrella, but they are also much more than bare-bones rubber dome switches.
I agree that more precise terminology would be useful.