Evil Trout Posted:

I’m going to Sticky this because it’s a good point.

Too many people are entering forums by mistake or thinking they could re-order their toolbar, etc. It’s a problem because I don’t like the idea of us cheaply taking your turns. I’m going to add some kind of mechanism that allows you to back out in the case of a mistake. This is my #1 priority today and I’ll do my best to get it out.

I think it might be more useful to have a mechanism that only reduced your forum visit count in the event of clicking on a thread than having a bumon that lets you redact your forum click—the former also catches people who accidentally close a window or have Firefox crash or something.

In terms of future features, it might also be nice to have the site save your state when you leave (through cookies or in the database or somesuch) so that if the browser dies you don’t lose out on your turn, but rather reappear where you last left. Having the choice of when to enter and when to leave a forum stay squarely in the realm of user choices, rather than environmental happenstances, seems like the best way to do things—especially in a game where you are limited to four “turns” per day (each of which has a notionally infinite number of sub-turns), rather than 40 turns.