"Publicly declaring an idea starts the clock ticking on patents" -- Only if the disclosed information is patentable. Few applications will describe ideas in pa

"Publicly declaring an idea starts the clock ticking on patents" -- Only if the disclosed information is patentable. Few applications will describe ideas in patentable detail. In any case, if the system is opt-in, it is isomorphic to general web publishing: why stop people from being stupid here when they can be stupid anywhere? "People should just start a blog about their idea if they want it public" -- blogs aren't centralized. Foundling YC-like orgs can't access them in any scalable way.