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QWERKey-UK t1_iu3e3ad wrote

Reply to comment by GreatGarage in What is your favourite layout, regardless of the available keycaps/PCB layouts by GreatGarage

>I think that most of the community in mech keyboards (not necessarily this sub only) is based in US so I'm not sure it's really a bias.

I disagree. Everyone on Zfrontier would as well. I can remember back when South Korea was ground zero for this hobby, and most stuff is still made in Asia. The US is just a large economic area so makes it appear as if it's a US based hobby. Whether that amounts to the same thing or not is perhaps another argument LOL.

>it's to have an idea of the popularity of the other layouts too.

I can only speak about my own country (UK), and here, if you read the UK Mechanical Keyboard sub, there's a strong loyalty to ISO, with sticky threads about it etc. Personally, i hate ISO and have used ANSI for years. I seem to be in a minority though. The UK is unique in some respects though, and has the luxury of being able to use either ANSI or ISO due to a shared language. Issues such as the £ symbol are not an issue... as I just demonstrated, but if you are French, or Norwegian, or Spanish, then that makes the matter more complicated. Same with JIS I would imagine. I still reckon this poll's result will be a roughly direct reflection of geographical location, and because the US is a very large geographical location, ANSI will win by a country mile.

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GreatGarage OP t1_iu3jfhx wrote

I think that you should spend more time trying to understand the answers people write when you discuss online. Your last 7 words prove you spent less than necessary.

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QWERKey-UK t1_iu54j06 wrote

My last seven words were agreeing with your prediction. I was attempting to have a conversation with you about your poll. But seeing as you're just being combative for some reason, then bollocks to you.... The main point of my reply was [if you spend more time trying to understand the answers people write when you discuss online] that the poll won't give you much meaningful data, BECAUSE the US is such a dominant demographic in here. You won't get any meaningful data on the popularity of other layouts, as it will just be inline with the size of each territory as a percentage of this sub by population size... unless that's the data you were looking for, but that wouldn't be hard to predict, and no more useful than the plethora of "what's your favourite switch type?" poll, because we all know it will be Linear, Tactile, Clicky. It won't tell for example, how many Japanese members of this sub use other layouts than JIS, or how many Europeans use ANSI. That would be interesting to know. Take ISO for example. It probably would have come second (if the poll had not been removed) because of the number of countries that use the layout, whereas JIS is predominantly used only in Japan (and by hardcore weebs LOL), so that would have come last. You would never know how popular other layouts were outside their own territory. This poll may as well have just been "Where do you live?".

TL;DR - I was just having a conversation with you... or trying to. Never mind, you're clearly having a bad day, so I'll leave you alone. :)

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