What would you think about a process in which your ideas are presented to the entire world years before any protection is granted them all for the sake of enlisting the world in trying to find someone who used it in the past?

Would make it a lot easier for some Chinese (for example, they don't care about patents or IP in general after all) to start mass producing your invention before your patent ever makes it through the system (which might grant you some protection against those ripoffs at least in some markets).