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If you post a truly novel, patentable idea, on a public forum, then any chance you had of getting a patent just vanished.
File a provisional application, followed by a complete application, within a year of the provisional filing. In the meantime, any discussion of your "novelty", above and beyond the criteria of "obvious to someone educated in the art" which is a damn near impossible threshold to surpass, very ambiguous and hard to contest without spending a small fortune on legal assistance, then you might get a patent after a few years.
I know the process, since I have one. Any revealing of the novelty, which is the only patentable part of any design, without a non-disclosure agreement signed by the party to be made witness of the "novelty" could kill the process, unless you have documentation of the originality of the novelty before the NDA was ever issued.
regards
Mech
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