• glimse@lemmy.world
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    When i saw that thread yesterday 90% of the comments were shitting on OP

    [Edit] I thought split keyboard were neat but never considered them for the same reason as the guy posting. I popped into the thread to see if anyone had some suggestions for OP and in turn, me.

    I walked away yesterday thinking “wow the ergo community is full of elitest douchebags”

    I’m not saying you’re all jerks…but that was my outsider perspective yesterday. Needlessly dog piling on the guy. No shit he got defensive - he was under attack

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      The original thread with the question had a lot of interesting recommendations and was mostly positive when I saw it. It was only the follow up meme crapping on the community and their defensive responses comments that it became negative.

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        When I saw it it had maybe a dozen comments and all but one was negative. The comment referenced in this meme hadn’t been posted yet, it was mostly just telling OP that they were typing wrong. It was weird and dismissive with 0 suggestions beyond “learn to type correctly

        Maybe future comments were more supportive but the initial onslaught was extremely homogenous and negative.

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          You do realize that ordering comments by old/new is a thing, and in doing so, the oldest comments are all helping/discussing solutions, with one comment being the mean one mentioned?

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          That’s kind of the way it has always worked on these types of threads? People upvote the helpful comments and downvote the unhelpful ones? But after the original post went mostly positive they should have left it alone instead of trying to complain about not being serviced to their level of needs on a public forum. That’s where they messed up.

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            Fair enough. I just wanted to give my initial impression after seeing the thread. I felt bad for OP because I didn’t think it was a stupid question

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      It kind of made me want to upload a video of me typing with 5 fingers to really piss off the touch-typing purists.

      I cannot imagine piling on someone for occasionally typing a middle key with the “wrong” hand. It doesn’t harm anyone in any way.

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      That was the impression I got as well. I also tend to strike several of the middle keys, especially Y and 6, with either hand depending on what I just typed before them, so all split keyboards I’m aware of which do not duplicate these keys are a non-starter for me.

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        Yeah. I still think they’re really cool but I’ll just appreciate them from afar lol

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      I don’t see how you came away with that impression considering I just looked at the original thread and it’s still mostly decent comments, but whatever fits your reality I guess

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      Anyone who claims to be a member of any community is a douchebag

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        Certain communities no. there are legitimate minority/vulnerable communities that should hold a support aspect that are genuinely at risk.

        Tech is not one of these communities though. It’s sort of like those parenting communities that take it to far into cliques. Or car enthusiasts. Like it’s a skill or hobby. It’s not an overall life circumstance nor should it ever be meant to be more important than any person partaking the skill or hobby. So many people seem to lose that vision and weaponized shit that shouldn’t be weaponized. at best you are helping a person. At worst, you go back to your skill and hobby or whatever and move on. They didn’t do it your way? Build a bridge. Get over it. World is not on fire and it’s not filled with bond villains just cuz kevin didn’t use the same glue you did to build his fuckin bird house.

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          Being a member is fine.

          Saying you represent that community is step one on the douche ramp