There are some recent posts using ask patents as a vehicle to document/"publish" the poster's own inventions that are improvements to cited patent documents and to solicit joint invention via AP. My view is that publishing of one's own inventions to invoke the AIA 102 (b) (1) (b ) "first to publish" or any other reason is off-topic. And while crowd sourcing a new invention might be a worthwhile experiment, it is a different experiment than AP and is not a Q and A oriented task. Actually doing that would require people to be named and to have some joint inventorship agreement for it to be meaningful, in my opinion.