The exclusions in the downloading would help to some degree, but it still remains inconvenient (maybe I'm being unduly whiny).
If you have a VPS lying around, I'll build a script that gives you an English-only version of patrol, renewed every 5 minutes.
I had not considered that, but I'm wondering if it would be appropriate for me to report posts that I believe to be spam, simply because they are from a spammer; since, even if it is across boards I cannot read the other languages, so it might not be fair to assume this is spam.
I meant spam like
AlexPromotion, spamming thousands of English posts all over the forum. You can read it in English even if it's posted on Chinese boards.