Recycled Buns & Bones

One of the problems with a seemingly unlimited resource, in this case halfbakery votes, is that people use it carelessly, tossing their buns and fishbones around, willy-nilly according to whim or mood or what the alien voices told them to do.

In these enlightened and resource conscious times, I feel that the halfbakery needs to get with the program. No longer should bakers be able to bun or bone an idea just because they can. No, the decision to use up such a valuable resource should be a carefully considered one. Hence ‘Recycled Buns & Bones’.

When you first log in to the bakery you are issued with a supply of buns & bones (say, 50 of each perhaps) which you must make last throughout your ‘bakery lifetime. You can still vote an unlimited number of times but, once you have exhausted your supply of buns & bones then you can only add them to any new idea that you like/hate by removing a vote that you have already cast on another idea (thus restocking your stock of votes) and recycling it on the new idea (re-depleting your stock of votes). In my particular fantasy world, this will lead to people carefully considering whether an idea really is worthy of their vote and, if it is, they will have to revisit dusty, old ideas that have lain forgotten in the halfbakery basement since the dawn of the century and review their previous vote.

Either that or people will just stop voting once their votes have run out. Either scenario seems OK to me.

In the event of dissatisfaction with this product remember, there are a lot worse idea out there that are much more deserving of your fishbone. Would you really want to waste it on something as dull as this?

Oh, and thanks to sqeaketh the wheel for unintended inspiration.