...And now for something slightly profound

[roaduck]

This forum is like a Positive Reinforcement Loop.



see : The Positive Reinforcement Loop is one characteristic that emerges

through the use of the Thinking Processes of Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory

of Constraints.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints

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The users herein review keyboards in a mostly favourable light and upon

reading the said reviews, readers are eventually persuaded to buy the

buckling spring keyboards on the recommendations of a fellow forum member

and then proceed to espouse the virtues of the "clicky" Human Interface

Devices

And so goes on to write another favourable impression of their purchase and

the cycle is repeated in a totally fluid and organic manner.



Ergo - we buy`em `cos we try `em and we come to love `em.

[roaduck]

Haha - Good for You mate - I just found something vaguely relevant and not too non

seqateur.Half of those pseudo-scientific psychologists have had mental illness

themselves so that they can analyse the problem from an internal ,personal perspective

at it were.

ha! ha! ha!

[mech]

My father has my Dell mechanical keyboards.  He agrees they're the best keyboards he has to type on, but he doesn't know why. (I never felt the need to explain.)

As to the feedback loop/echo chamber, just remember that there are certain types of keyboards that are easy to attain, and difficult to attain, whether you're on this forum or not.  Pretty much everybody older than 27 has tried a BS keyboard in their life; and Das Keyboard (and subsequently the M10) and their availability on Amazon have brought Cherry MX blues into the general public.  Less substantially, when the Matias Tactile Pro 2.0 was released, a lot of sites reviewed it in comparison to Unicomps.  I don't know if that translated to any sort of surge or not though.

Point is, the market is partially responsible for the sampling of opinions in the first place.  And the second point is, this forum is more diverse than the market.

[wellington1869]

My father has my Dell mechanical keyboards.  He agrees they're the best keyboards he has to type on, but he doesn't know why. (I never felt the need to explain.)

sometimes i think thats the best way. Otherwise its just an invitation to obsess about minutea. If they like it and use it, thats whats important.

[AndrewZorn]

explain?

"hey dad, the keyboard you are using shares the same mechanisms as many other keyboards still manufactured today.  if for some reason you ever have/feel the need for another keyboard, know that there may be others that suit your taste."

[timw4mail]

Just admit it, you can't satisfy the rampant curiosity.

[mech]

My Dad is an advanced 4-6 finger hunt-and-pecker.  The only keyboard he would like more would be a Unicomp, because all his typing experiences were on Selectrics and things of that nature.