[tptacek]

The moderator, 'dang, has asked that these not get posted anymore:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262

("Something about having all these ideas in one place makes the whole less than the sum of its parts.", "Ideas are better in the wild. Let's discuss them as they come up organically, rather than try to organize an idea-fest.")

[uptown]

Bummer. I'd always found it to be an enjoyable read. A really dense thread of intelligent idea-exchange.

[DanBC]

It'd be useful (to some people) if one account could post a once monthly thread for idea-dumping.

People often point out existing solutions, so that's useful. Restricting it to a single account and once per month avoids the other problems of those threads.

[mcintyre1994]

Only the 'whoishiring' account is allowed to make those threads and Dang has already rejected an idea one on that account.

[DanBC]

I understand the idea has been rejected. I'm still gently, politely, mentioning that some people find the threads interesting fun and useful and hoping that the decision is changed.

I know that halfbaked covers some of the purpose, and there are probably reddit sub-reddits that do similar things, but still, and HN version would be good.

[mcintyre1994]

Ah okay cool, I agree that they were interesting - HN would be my preferred community to get ideas with I think. (Just say your karma, sorry if my original post was condescending!)

Will check out halfbaked, haven't heard of that. There's a subreddit /r/somebodymakethis which has occasionally had some interesting ideas (it led to RES) but there's probably better options.

There was a HN styled forum posted a while back too, (found it in the comments) http://firespotting.com/ - but it's definitely less active and a smaller community.

[cjbarber]

I put it up on /r/startups if there's interest.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/27nvm8/ask_idea_su...

[dwaltrip]

Seems a little heavy handed to ask people not to post them at all, as opposed to simply not officially endorsing it.