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As I mentioned in Adopt an Idea<link> I think a common problem is that once an idea is posted and in the public domain of HB it is very easy for the anno's to lead it in a completely different direction and eventually your innocent little idea is the spark for a horrible and ugly slanging match.
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perhaps you have decided that it is a bad idea after all but it has generated too many annos for it to be fair to delete it.
My solution is the 'divorce' button next to the delete button. This removes your name from the idea and allows it to be 'picked up' by someone else who may now wish to champion the idea.
Adopt-an-idea
http://www.halfbake.../idea/Adopt-an-Idea
[etherman, Oct 05 2004]
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good idea maybe better to have a ghost user to whom divorced ideas are attributed, one of the potential down sides is that certain people may treat it as an excuse to post offencive ideas. |
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offencive ideas would be deleted by the moderators. it would have to be checked regularly for the idea you stated. |
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sorry DrCurry I accidentally (if rather ironically) deleted your anno, in which you declared that such ideas as described in my idea above should just be deleted as there 'is nothing special about the anno's.' |
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I beg to differ. Often the annos are the most informative and creative aspects of this website. I realise purists like yourself worry about 'noise level' etc. but i happen to think the discussions on here are the best bit of HB. |
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Now about that deleting annos warning.... |
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Mark it for deletion and let the moderator(s) decide if the annotations are priceless? |
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but the point is you DONT want it to be deleted. you just dont want your name on it any more. |
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...what? If bakers give an idea some bad annos, delete them and keep the ones that are priceless. |
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Another Alan Smithee idea. |
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I don't believe in deleting anno's unless that are really offencive. a la <godisdead> |
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I support this. Even a bad example or idea is a good thing to have, because it sets a precedent. If somone else comes up with the same idea later, they can look back in the archives, find the old idea, realize its lousy, and not post it. Conversely, if it is posted, peole can refer back to the precedent as justification why the new one is a bad idea (and a duplicate). |
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Still, it'd be nice to have your name taken off of something really stupid, if you have a lapse in sense and post it. |
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I'd greatly prefer the 'something really stupid' was just deleted. |
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Ideas, like mistakes are the only things truly ours.
Oo I got a shiver. |
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Would this not be, ultimately, the same as posting anonymously? |
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not necessarily. you can still have your name on the idea, but also I would advocate (oops) that the divorced ideas can be taken on by someone else who will attatch their name to it and perhaps answer any further anno's in support of an idea. |
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so when your having a slow day and no ideas are coming you can cruise the HB ideas single bar for divorced ideas, pick one up and fight for the idea like it was yours all along. |
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A slow day would not feel to me like a week had gone past and I no longer recognize the place. |
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oh dear... pass the prozac. |
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There's nothing to stop you picking up an idea that's still married and having a brief, torrid fling of passionate advocacy. Before dropping it like the cheap tramp it was, and skulking home to your ever-faithful Dalai Lama Door Stop. |
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//I'd greatly prefer the 'something really stupid' was just deleted.//
But then I'd not have any ideas at all... |
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Aw, come on, [shapu], don't be like that, what about...
(Checks [shapu]'s personal page)
Wow. You're right. They'd pretty much all go, wouldn't they?
;-) |
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The world isn't ready for me yet. But give it time...yes...excellent... |
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yes the dalai lama has seen me thru many a long lonely night... and not many can boast that. |
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but now and then he gets on my tits!!! and maybe I'd like to divorce him... just for a bit. |
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// and skulking home to your ever-faithful Dalai Lama Door Stop.// |
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It appears that recently the DLDS has been nothing but a cheap whore. |
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+ I'm for this one but I could see how it could be overused/ abused. Perhaps a limit on the number of times you can divorce per month, or a waiting period whereby if no one adopts the idea it defaults back to you adding salt to the wound. |
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maybe you'd have to pay a forfit. like loosing buns off your best idea. |
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In fairness it should get half your dough. More if you've been playing around with new ideas. |
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and you loose all your custard (y) rights. |
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