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Parallel Halfbakeries

The name has spoken for itself: Create an engine that automatically edits/selects different sets of ideas on the main page and different sets of interactions for each idea. Apply selection differently for each user.
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The reason I came up with this is the display-time on the main page has decreased considerably. The solution can only be generally relative. I would like a unique/randomly personalized navigation history to be there representing my preferences/annotations/ criticism I was addressed. This would be bakeable by coherently assigning interactions between users. I will make this post a starting point. Assume it would only appear on the main page for some randomly selected users and for others it would only be visible via <recent> and other secondary navigation controls. Assume all annotations would be structured in independent sets depending on the time at which certain users first see the idea. And that users belonging to those sets can only see their annotations and no other. This way, every user would get a totally different set of ideas / idea annotations to interact with. Buns/skeletons would add up of course, regardless the parallel bakery they come from.
sweet, Apr 23 2007

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       device for preventing communication?
pertinax, Apr 23 2007
  

       sp. Parallel.   

       But I'm not following what you're after. You appear to be describing a personalized, computer-generated version of the Halfbakery. Of which, I completely fail to see the point.
DrCurry, Apr 23 2007
  

       Good plan - you have all the crap ideas and we'll have all the good ones.
Ian Tindale, Apr 23 2007
  

       gee thx for the [+] [<insert name of imaginary friend>]. I'm glad you like it.   

       <edit> oops, sorry guys, that was adressed to someone who I was talking to on another branch of this idea's evolution.</edit>
sweet, Apr 23 2007
  

       [Ian], [Dr], thx for waiting me finish editing my idea. You only read the header. Hello?
sweet, Apr 23 2007
  

       …er, yes. I hadn't realised you were doing this one in instalments.
Ian Tindale, Apr 23 2007
  

       Well, it was my fault for not letting you know actually. I didn't do the same mistake on the other halfbakeries though..
sweet, Apr 23 2007
  

       This would represent a phenomenal management problem for the haver of the idea, as they and only they (and anyone looking over their shoulder) would see all phases in one unified juncture. Most people would probably hit upon similar points, believing that they were each the first to disclose it, so you'd probably have many phases of the same topic thread develop in parallel. Were there ever to be a leakage from one phase sector to the next, it'd be like deja vu all over again. People would think they're in the familiar conversational thread, as the points raised so far would all be similar, and everything would have a certain familiarity to it. It'd be like deja vu all over again. From the point of view of the hubmaster of the idea package, you'd have to be responding to near- identical topic threads over and over and over. It'd be like a duvet all over again, not just for Christmas.
Ian Tindale, Apr 23 2007
  

       The Halfbakery is not nearly as crowded as you think. Start sub-dividing it this way, and *no one* will get to see your precious ideas, or share their fishbones with you.
DrCurry, Apr 23 2007
  

       //The Halfbakery is not nearly as crowded as you think// That's what *you* think!
sweet, Apr 23 2007
  
      
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