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A minor enhancement to the HB - Add something similiar to the link field where users can enter the title of an idea if their idea was inspired by it (regardless of how far apart the two ideas might be). That way we could come back later and see if our ideas spawned any interesting variations, which
in turn might spark so more variations on our part.
It was RECENT, then
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[theircompetitor, Oct 21 2005]
Good Ideas Gone Bad
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That'd make an interesting graphic
representation, too. |
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++ For the spirit of citing the ideas of others. |
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Standing on the shoulders of gnomes. |
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This will create a recursive encouragement system and is thus more seriously required than it sounds.. It takes the achievement of HB to a newer level. |
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HB! Go for it! I dont think it requires much recoding. |
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I hope there will be a complex XML file one day that we can parse for our own reasons:-) |
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What's wrong with simply linking to the derived idea?
We don't have special link types for other things, either, and I still don't miss them. |
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jutta - I was thinking of something along the same lines as Ian. By creating a standard way to reference an idea where the original inspiration came from then it would be possible to create a graphical representation of the communal stream of consciousness that flowed downstream from the original idea. It's likely that we'd begin to see each tree having it's own general theme, something ranging from 'serious engineering applications' from a technical idea to 'comic relief' from an idea that began with pirates. I'm visually oriented so seeing a graphic helps me see the pattern behind something and produce new ideas from it. This would also be offer us a new category - trees - which we could pick from according to the mood we're in. |
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Doesn't this come as a text tree, in the category lists, linked below? |
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For me there is more joy to be had in discovering the discrete islands of sweet weirdness that constitute the HB than there is trying to make sense of it all from some bird's eye view. |
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A dependency tree of posts does not amount to a communal stream of consciousness. Human language is far more subtle than XML, and the pattern of links you'd need to truly track the flow of games and themes through a conversation would get in the way of having the conversation. |
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Maybe there is a new medium waiting to be invented that presents a better mix of visualized relationship and text. Go build it. (If I were you, I'd start with a simple chat system and a real client, not HTML.) But I will continue to resist the attempts at pushing the halfbakery - a very minimal, very textual database system in which community and conversation are only incidental - into this direction. |
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[marked-for-tagline] Standing on the shoulders of gnomes. |
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BH, you crack me up and all the gnomes, I've ever known - apart from g'thang |
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