[bruce511]

I'm not the author, but I eill counterpoint the "stolen idea" hypothesis.

Firstly ideas are just ideas. Most are bad, that's why we have a lot of them and why the real skill is filtering the bad ones out.

Secondly, the site would get a new idea "observed" every few days/hours/whatever. That would be terribly distracting to anyone actually trying to execute on one of them.

Thirdly, despite what we learn at school, ideas are maybe 1% of the task. Executing the idea in all spheres (product design and development, marketing, sales, admin, management et al) is frankly a Lot of work. Its likely expensive. You gave to be all-in to even have a hope. 90% of even all-in work will fail inside 10 years.

The -last- thing I want is a stream of random business ideas, each one shinier than the last, endlessly distracting me.

I agree with your other points, but i don't think you need to worry about idea theft.