Halfbakery Idea Deletion Allowance

While perusing various random ideas, I stumbled upon a halfbaker with an absolutely sterling record. Stunned by the seeming omnipotence of this individual, I examined his profile carefully. Lo and behold, out of some 70-odd ideas, only one registered any bones at all, and that one had the full 2-1/2, a kind of badge of glory, as if this halfbaker’s *only* boned idea was so patently and intentionally terrible that it registered the maximum allowable negative impact, making it the best of the worst, and therefore imminently fit for inclusion in the astounding list of otherwise bunned ideas.

How did this state of affairs come to pass, perchance? No, not a sole among us could be so indomitable, so invincible, so perfect. Not even the wise and venerable Jutta, whose record shows … perfection?! How could this be?

Clearly, those with perfect records have carefully pruned their profile, eliminating ideas that cast aspersion upon their otherwise fine character and demonstrably good judgment and fine intelligence.

‘Tis no wondering that some call for renormalization, halfbakery electoral colleges and other ideas to bring parity and truth to the halfbakery. The practice of cleansing one’s history, of web-scrubbing if you will, is despicable in that it paints a truly distorted picture, similar to the way the current US administration has gone to great lengths to hide, confound or otherwise distract their true behavior from the larger body of citizens to whom they owe allegiance.

As such, I hereby propose the Halfbakery Idea Deletion Allowance. This is a simple system that would allow a halfbaker to delete any of his own ideas as long as a correspondingly inverse idea was deleted as well; for example, to delete a 1-1/2 bone idea, it would be necessary to delete a 1-1/2 bun idea simultaneously, thereby maintaining not only the correct and necessary balance of cosmic forces but also a true and honest representation of each and every halfbaker.

Thus a halfbaker with all bones will find it impossible to delete even a single idea until he has at least one that is bunned. Getting rid of a nasty idea that garnered one the full 2-1/2 bones would require the deletion of an elusive and highly prized idea that earned one 2-1/2 buns. Thus would all halfbakers, from the most revered to the most defiled, be maintained with a true and accurate record, unaffected by self-manipulation, and exposed for all to see.

Thus would the halfbakery be normalized, and the Gods made mortal, and the mortal made even more so.