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Ninja'd means when someone was writing, another troper wrote the same thing before them. For instance, troper X is making a reply, and troper Y does too... troper Y finishes writing it before troper X, but troper X didn't know that, as he was still writing.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
O, right. O.P. has a point, and supporting it, in that regard.
I think this is a pointless change. I also think that such a tool might have difficulty detecting when someone is no longer writing a post, say because they clicked on "addpost" by mistake and then closed the browser tab.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
This would require some form of continual communication stream between the site and each user. Definitely out of scope for our current development goals, but it might be a thing we could consider for the far future.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
You could instead add a "ninja warning" when you try to post that says "X new posts have been made since you started writing this, reading them might be a good idea".
The Dwarf Fortress forums
have this, for example. (Actually, that's the only forum I can think of that has it, for some reason...)
Something like that would be pretty cool.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
wingedcatgirl's idea is very interesting, and it seems more doable than mine.
I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D
Maybe the fact that it's the only forum that does it means that it's not technically feasible...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Can we add a feature to the forums to tell you if someone is currently writing a post? It would be like the edit lock system for wiki pages, although it wouldn't necessarily have to lock other people out of writing a post, it would just let them know that someone else is writing one. It would be a very helpful way to avoid getting ninja'd on the forums.