What are the types of posts that you see posted every now and again by a newly registered members on keyboard forums?
What are the things that noob posts, and you answer, again and again?
Here is my list:
"I want to build something truly amazing, but I have no experience and I don't know anything. Will someone please tell me how to do it. HEELP MEE!"Answer: No, sorry. Nobody wants to spend their valuable time tutoring you or giving you step-by-step instructions.
You will have to look up and learn things for yourself. Read existing threads in
Making Stuff Together and use the search function (it searches from the page on which you are).
Be also acquainted with the
Wiki and the
Deskthority Wiki.
Then you could of course ask for help when you get stuck, and it is best to state a specific problem in an as easy-to-understand way as possible, to get people's attention and a good reply.
Sometimes there might be tutorials on other sites that someone may have a link to, though.
"I am looking to buy a new keyboard with a metal case, like the Corsair KXX. I don't want any plastic, because metal is better and harder".
Answer: No, the Corsair keyboards and most other keyboards with "floating keys" don't have
metal cases. They have switch mounting plate made of sheet metal, but so do almost all other mechanical keyboards you can find in stores.
The difference is that the plate is exposed where as the competition cover the plates up with a piece of plastic on top.
The bottoms are almost always plastic. There are a small number of keyboards with cases of
solid metal with floating keys though but those are a bit more premium than what you would find in a regular computer store.
"How do I add RGB backlighting to this keyboard? Is there a tutorial?"Answer: If it did not have backlighting from the beginning then most of the times, you can't add it.
The only exception might be some keyboard that you built in a kit, where backlighting would be an optional feature -- but then the kit's instructions should tell you how to do it.
You could perhaps run something that shines light
around the keys, but that wouldn't really light up the legends and you would risk making a big mess of it. Not that several people have done so, with EL wire, LED strips or fibre-optic strands, You could search the forums to look for them.
Edit: Now, sounding less like an ass.
