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Philocrat said:Are you suggesting that people can nick ideas from your forum and you can do nothing about it?
Think about it. What's to prevent people from NOT doing that?
From most of the threads that I have participated in and read many postings in them, some of these threads, especially in the physics section, may contain new materials or useful conversational materials, how would you spot them, let alone protect them as copyright materials from your own forum? If this is the case, then why not secure TD and limit access to only your PF mentors and administrators and those with special membership?
But this whole point is moot because of ZapperZ's First Law: No useful information that have made any significant contribution to the body of knowledge of physics have solely existed in open forums.
If I have something substantial, I would NOT post it in an open forum. And I know I'm not alone in this. So what does that tell you about people who do? And how would they even know they were scooped since most of these quacks don't even know what a "peer-review journal" is?
Now this is different than casual conversation that, in turn, somehow triggers a new idea. It has happened to me before, and it has happened with me as the impetus. But I can immediately tell you that it didn't happen at an internet open forum! It occurred at physics conferences, workshops, colloquiums, seminars, etc. and in conversations with people who were in the trenches, working intimitately with a particular area, and who know physics!
Again, no one has made any convincing argument on the importance, contribution, significance, etc. of having these so-called "theory development". At best, all I've read is that we should have it because... well... we should! How such things contribute to the "development" rather than a "retardation", I still have no clue.
Zz.