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Want to steal someone's idea that you really wish you'd though of ?
Simple. Right now, create an idea called, for example, "Prior art placeholder". Put some bland, uninteresting filler text in the idea body (just cut and paste it from one of [beany]'s ramblings).
When an idea is posted that you
wish you'd thought of, perhaps years later, simply edit your "placeholder" idea to closely resemble it, delete any inappropriate annotations, then link across from the "new" idea claiming "Prior Art !" in an offended tone and marking it for deletion.
The date of your idea will automatically pre-date the "new" version (since origination dates don't change even if the idea is massively edited), thus the unfortunate author will be pilloried for, at worst, failing to search, and at best blatant plagiarism.
Of course, this idea is dishonest, petty, unworthy, and totally contrary to the spirit and ethos of the HB.
We're amazed it hasn't been thought of before ...
Prior Art!
_93Original_94_20Idea_20Placeholder
Ok, so that was predictable... [RayfordSteele, Jan 30 2018]
Doctorremulac3, inventor of the iPhone.
iPhone
Which can also be worn as a hat. [doctorremulac3, Jan 30 2018]
Prior art.
Halfbakery_20Prior_20Art_20_20Placeholder
[MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 30 2018]
How to do it proper
Chimp_20Orchestra
[doctorremulac3, Jan 30 2018]
What [doctorremulac3]'s iPhone idea used to be
https://wayback.arc...deflecting_20hat_2e
Took some digging. Edited between 2013-01-05 and 2013-03-11 [notexactly, Feb 03 2018]
Prior art (in the case Scott Prior, of Massachusetts)
http://www.scottpriorart.com/paintings/
Many a bare, nekkid ladies - if you're into that kind of thing. [not_morrison_rm, Feb 03 2018]
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Just gimme the cache and no one gets hurt. |
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But we did think of it before. See link... |
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One wonders what the internet archive would have to say.
Choosing an idea just shortly before the one in question
seems like the cleverest solution, to avoid the archive
spool. |
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Sorry, Max, your category is showing. |
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Max, you forgot to add the: "Plus, you can sing
this idea as a song." (see link) |
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//Put some bland, uninteresting filler text in the idea body |
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I wondered about the logic underlying all of your posts.... |
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Even with the web archive, how can you tell what the
original idea was since the URL of the idea changes when
the title is changed? |
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Look through the user's archived profile for an idea with a
matching date that is no longer available on the live site. |
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In more detail: Do a binary search through the history of
their profile for when the idea's new title appeared, and
then diff that revision against the previous one to find out
what it used to be. Then go to the archived copy of the
idea (under its old title) (for which you may have to go to
an even earlier archived revision) and check that the post
date, annos, links, etc. match. |
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Curses! My plan to get big iPhone money thwarted! |
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Kind of liked the original idea. Think I'll re-post it. |
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So, you either have eight farly clean hogs, or a smaller number of much cleaner hogs, or just one squeaky-clean* hog ... |
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*Any mention of Deliverance in this context will be severely dealt with. |
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That's a lot of hogs to wash. Someone's going to be busy. |
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