I really can't see where the problem is.
There are good and very good membrane keyboards out there and most of them are likely more reliable than a Filco, sometimes at 1/50 of the filco cost.
So you like Filco, we like mechs, it's a reasonable precedence, but forgot that you can call ignorant who has a different preference just because it has spent 5 dollars instead of 160.
Even in the hypotesys that a 5 dollars keyboard will broke 2 times per year (and we all know is not true) whit 160 $ you can buy 32 RD keyboard good for 16 years of usage.
So who is the one that makes the smarter move, who spend 160$ for a single keyboard or who spend 5$ for the cheapest one ?
Mech keyboards are just a, respectable, personal preference.
Not necessarily a good move, not necessarily the best choice, and this will apply also speaking just about Filcos v.s. cheaper mech keyboards.
It seems my incorrect usage of terms made it sounded rather harsh and that it has sparked some feelings.
In the context of 5 Dollars vs 160 Dollars keyboard, there is nothing to really compare about. I agree with you wholeheartedly on the case that if someone chose to spend 5 dollars for a keyboard instead of 160 on a FILCO. People want them cheap, and 5 Dollars is about as cheap as you get them, new. In this sense, it seems perfectly fine that one does not choose to spend too much money on their keyboard, which is their choice.
I admit that I am mistaken to have choosed a FILCO vs a Rubber Dome to do a comparison since even I myself thinks that the price for a FILCO in my country is overpriced. I guess I was not thinking much into the the price tag of that FILCO when writing the original post. My original aim was to show the reaction of ordinary folks who get showed a Mechanical Keyboard when in all their life, they only know that their 'Gaming' Keyboards are the best in the whole wide world.
Then I point it to you the 'problem' that you mentioned:
The type of people who thinks their Rubber Dome 'Gaming' Keyboard is the best in the world. This would become a Mech Keyboards vs Rubber Dome Keyboards thing, so it's pretty pointless to say that a Mech Keyboard is better than a 'Gaming' Keyboard in cases where they have the same price range, in GH of all places. So just skip reading this if you want to since I would figure that most people here thinks this way too.
The price of their 'Gaming' Keyboards aren't too far off for a decent/half decent mechanical keyboard. I don't know if you see it in this light, but the people commenting on that facebook page are people like this. I know I'm just making stereotypical conclusions based on my gut feeling, but more often than not, this is the case. And these people, since they do not know of the existence of Mechanical Keyboards, would be, for a lack of a better term, ignorant. As like most cases, there are exceptions, where in some cases, some people use their LCD of the G15 to do their OCing monitor since running programs on extra LCDs affect their Frame Rates for benchmarking. I'll take their word for it, since they are the expert in their field, but as exceptions goes, they are not the kind of people I am referring to.
