[Call for nominees] The *Ping* Award 2012

[webwit]

Use this category to name the worst keyboard or keyboard/input device related experience in 2012. Anything goes. You have to give a short motivation for each suggestion. This category is named after the infamous Summer of Ping.

Current suggestions (this list is frequently updated):

Corsair for botching the Vengeance
Summer of Rollback/R00TW0RM+aftermath/Lack of proper backup&restore on gh --> Geekhack Clusterfuck Summer
Thermaltake Knucker
The Unicomp Thanksgiving tweet/troll
Coolermaster branding on their products
Logitech mechanical keyboard
Madcatz S.T.R.I.K.E keyboard
Glossywhite
Vortex vapour keyboard
The Lin vs. MagicMeatball epic thread
Geekhack turning into a key cap enthusiast's forum/circlejerk arts and crafts site
Ripster's decent to the underworld
The Changdrew saga
Truly Ergonomic remapping vapourware
The *Ping* Award Award cannot win itself
dirge for still not sending soarer this keyboard! Self-nomination
The loss of keyboardporn.com and sixty as an active member
The Paypal group buy scam routine
Der Zoll
Kisakuku
Theferenc
Razer Cult

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I'm quite disappointed that Corsair managed to botch the Vengeance so much. As one of very few metal mechanical keyboards on the commercial market (only other one I can think of is the WiNDy ALFEEL), they managed to ruin it for everyone.

[bhtooefr]

The Summer of Rollback. Where Geekhack's administration demonstrated their incompetence.

R00TW0RM. Because R00TW0RM.

The aftermath of R00TW0RM. Where Geekhack's administration demonstrated their complete and utter incompetence.

The Thermaltake Knucker. Because it lies.

The Unicomp free shipping coupon... mainly because they seemed to be teasing so much more. (I mean, coupons are good, but damn.)

[trax]

Coolermaster branding on their products.

[mintberryminuscrunch]

nail polish key caps (I win )
PS: my nominee for 2013 will be Logitech mechanical keyboard

[pasph]

Corsair the best opportunity wasted

[002]

I vote for that ridiculous Madcatz S.T.R.I.K.E keyboard. Madcatz...Topre can barely get away with charging over $250 for a keyboard with rubber domes, you have no chance; especially when we know what you're capable of:

Spoiler:

[HaaTa]

The Unicomp Thanksgiving tweet...it was more underwhelming than expected.

[rodtang]

glossywhite or whatever his name was.

[laffindude]

Vortex. V for Vaporware.

[litster]

Maybe we should combine Summer of Rollback and ROOTWORM+Aftermath into one. the Rollbacks were cost by ROOTWORM's hacks. Also, the fact that GH wasn't backed up correctly and could not be restored properly really was a great candidate for the Ping award, more so than the rollback itself and the hacks.

[litster]

another nomination: the Lin vs. MagicMeatball epic thread.

[fossala]

Geekhack turning into a key cap enthusiast's forum.

[dirge]

geekhack for becoming a circlejerk arts and crafts site, breaking new boundaries in single key pricing. Herd mentality / bandwagon effect in full flow.

Another vote for the Lin vs. MagicMeatball epic thread, if your caught out, don't apologize and make things right. Go mental and hurl abuse at everyone.

Dare I say ripsters decent to the underworld? Banished to myth and legend

[fossala]

Magicmeatball changed his name to mmb over at GH and everyone acts like nothing happened.

[dirge]

Magicmeatball changed his name to mmb over at GH and everyone acts like nothing happened.

Yes GH allowed him to cover up and delete the posts over there, history's written by the winners mate.

Another nomination, the Changdrew saga. GH mod given lots of money vanishes, but not very well and still visits the site and provides vague updates via proxy.

[hoggy]

Truly Ergonomic remapping software, sorry vapourware. I just can't let go...

[edit] I don't even have one of their keyboards...

[Ekaros]

Was Geekhack failing horribly this year? The downtimes and so on, or was it last year? I'm getting old(not really);D

[bhtooefr]

Maybe we should combine Summer of Rollback and ROOTWORM+Aftermath into one. the Rollbacks were cost by ROOTWORM's hacks. Also, the fact that GH wasn't backed up correctly and could not be restored properly really was a great candidate for the Ping award, more so than the rollback itself and the hacks.

Not all of the rollbacks were because of R00TW0RM. At least two were due to Ripster abusing his moderator privileges and deleting users.

Maybe it'd be better to combine the Summer of Rollback, R00TW0RM, and the aftermath of R00TW0RM into "The clusterfuck that was Geekhack this summer"

[Soarer]

I nominate The *Ping* Award itself, for getting more than double the number of nominations than any other nomination thread (so far)

[dirge]

me for still not sending soarer this keyboard!

[telepete]

The great ripster ban is my nomination. Awesome.

[Ekaros]

The great ripster ban is my nomination. Awesome.

How exactly is that bad? ;D

[Soarer]

me for still not sending soarer this keyboard!

You're not allowed to nominate yourself, but... damn right!!!

[bhtooefr]

Ripster's actions leading up to the ban, that's what's nomination-worthy. And, that's already there.

[Daniel]

The loss of keyboardporn.com and sixty as a active member here.
I loved that site!

[JBert]

The Paypal group buy scam routine (or more specific, how Paypal ruined Sixty's Vortex Race group buy).

[telepete]

Oh ya that's true. Suggestion withdrawn!

[Grond]

Vortex Keyboard turning into Vapour Keyboard.

[Halverson]

The clusterfuck of summer over at GH. Specially losing almost everything valuable over there. Wikis, pictures, etc