[Final vote] The *Ping* Award 2012

[webwit]

Please vote for your winner of The *Ping* Award 2012. What was the worst keyboard or keyboard/input device related experience in 2012?

By voting in this category you can win deskthority and Trololo keycaps from QWERkeys.

This is the final round. See the first round and second round for reference.

Filco user exploring a *ping* problem.

The nominees are:

Geekhack turning into a key cap enthusiast's forum/circlejerk arts and crafts site
Plastic bits, man.


On one level, the interplay of colors in this exquisite piece of art demonstrates the resiliency of online sharing forums, and in particular the orange exemplifies the colour of resistance, in order to portray the independence of Geekhack. However in its core it expresses raw existentialism, providing an illuminating view on the necessary absurdity of the human condition. Bidding starts at $200, the proceeds will go to feeding the starving children of Africa.

Ripster's descent to the underworld
Somewhere it all went bad. How do you get banned from geekhack, deskthority and reddit keyboards? Tracking back, it must have started after he got into Alps.


Ripster "After Alps", while posting on mechanical keyboard forums.

The Geekhack Clusterfuck Summer
Geekhack was momentarily down because of DDOS attacks, hacking attempts, a clickclack sale, a database upgrade, failed backups, a hardware upgrade, a RAID failure, wiki restore failure, misaligned position of Venus in the night sky, Java ate the SQL server, Flash disk installation, failing RAM, scheduled maintenance, unscheduled maintenance, r00tw0rm hacked the server and wiped the disk, new forum software, firewall configuration problems, database restoration problems. Thank you for your patience.


Typical geekhack styling - Summer 2012.

The Lin vs. MagicMeatball epic thread
A deal gone bad.


Did this keyboard suck or not suck?

The loss of keyboardporn.com and sixty as an active member
Due to problems with life and health, our beloved co-founder sixty has been absent for half a year now. Hopefully he will return soon and in good health and spirit.


Will keyboardporn.com return?

[RC-1140]

I don't really think sixty belongs here. The disappearing of sixty is something that makes me really sad. All the other options you have here are "bad" in the sense of facepalm-worthy and ridiculous, but with sixty it's just bad in the meaning of sad and pitiable.

[litster]

I voted, then I changed my mine. And neither was the one I nominated. This illustrates the daily internal struggle one has to deal with when multiple options are presented, yet only one can be chosen.

[Soarer]

GH Clusterfuck. There can be no other winner, since any single part of that debacle would be a worthy contender on its own.

[longweight]

Has to be the descent into a winge/bicker fuckfest that GH has become, it's really gone downhill over the last year.

[Soarer]

Nono... part of the reason for that is teh lobotomisation - deletion of content. And not just by rootworm.

[longweight]

I agree, no one gives a shit about knowledge any more, it's all about everyone being able to get all the caps and making sure that no one makes any money at all.

[fossala]

I agree, no one gives a shit about knowledge any more, it's all about everyone being able to get all the caps and making sure that no one makes any money at all.

No one makes money are you fucking kidding me... You're not very good either, I won't mention why, but you know what I'm talking about.

[fossala]

Tried to edit not quote....

[Soarer]

PING!

webwit should've allowed this nomination...

The *Ping* Award Award cannot win itself

[laffindude]

I can't choose between the 2 GH choices so I flipped the coin.

I rather have (the old) Rippy McRip than the current state of GH. At least rippy is funny and has legos. Not sure why the sudden callousness and spite. May be keyboard really is srs bzns.

[dirge]

great picture, but they all are! nice one webwit, those sum up this year lol. Although the meatball pic could be changed to the post office pic lol. That was great, and complete refusal to back down even given photographic evidence..

[Ekaros]

Geekhack summer, how everything can go wrong on one site...

[longweight]

I agree, no one gives a shit about knowledge any more, it's all about everyone being able to get all the caps and making sure that no one makes any money at all.

No one makes money are you fucking kidding me... You're not very good either, I won't mention why, but you know what I'm talking about.

Please do, I'm not sure why you think that so it would be good to hear.

[webwit]

@dirge
I agree, that picture is better, in use now.

[webwit]

The two nominees with currently the most votes are: Geekhack turning into a keycap enthusiast's forum/circlejerk arts and crafts site and the loss of keyboardporn.com and sixty as an active member.