How many of you have experienced a time in your life when you realized that an idea you had was appropriated by another party without your consent for profit? Perhaps not all, but some. Perhaps you shared an idea casually with a classmate at a college, or included an idea in a senior thesis read by your professor. Years went by and you almost forgot about it and then it hits you... that greedy bastard stole my idea!

There is a general understanding amongst those who steal ideas for a living that most people who have ideas are less concerned with protecting their idea and more concerned with either sharing their idea for the sake of sharing, or sharing it in order to get a confirmation that they do indeed have a marketable or useful idea. As such, private corporations and even state actors (Tesla is probably the worst culprit right now) have employed people full time to sit and watch boards like this one in order to harvest every single valuable idea that is floated.

The individuals hired to do this are given instruction manuals detailing how they can elicit further details of an idea by posing as a bystander and are then instructed to gaslight individuals sharing ideas as well as third parties by dismissing the idea as impractical, infeasible, or downright crazy. Then, it's off to the races to rephrase the description of an idea just in case a thread is archived and in case anyone bothers to look and then they will often use online notaries to save time. Patents are awarded to whoever documents an idea in writing (with a notary) first. Convincing third party scavengers as well as the inventor of the implausibility of the concept in question is priority number one after the timely notarization of the concept.