Ignore Board on Patrol

[bill gator]

Right now it doesn't seem that Ignore Board applies to Patrol. This is frustrating, because I cannot efficiently patrol when the majority of my time is spent trying to find a post I can read. Ignore Board applies to everywhere else as far as I can tell; is there a reason Ignore Board does not apply to Patrol?

[LoyceV]

I think the whole point of patrol is to see all posts.

I got curious though how to exclude them, and don_crissti got me this idea:

Code:

grep -n -A12 -B15 'Разное' patrol.html | sed -n 's/^\([0-9]\{1,\}\).*/\1d/p' | sed -f - patrol.html > patrol2.html

This removes all posts in Paзнoe from my downloaded patrol.html, and creates a new file patrol2.html.
This part in the code is the board name in HTML:

Code:

Разное

If you make a list of all boards you want to exclude, you can strip all unknown languages from your local patrol.html.

[bill gator]

I think the whole point of patrol is to see all posts.

I must misunderstand the purpose of the Patrol board then. I don't see what good it does anybody to see boards/posts they cannot read or understand; although, I've been wrong before and I could easily be missing an important nuance of the system. I thought the point was to patrol the posts of newbies to see who was deserving a report and now to potentially see who is deserving of a merit. This cannot be effectively done if 80% of the board is foreign languages.

This removes all posts in Paзнoe from my downloaded patrol.html, and creates a new file patrol2.html.

If you make a list of all boards you want to exclude, you can strip all unknown languages from your local patrol.html.

This is a helpful solution, but it is a lot of extra work for something I feel should already be implemented. My internet connection is horrendous, so every page I load is a chore and process. Downloading the page would longer than I'd like.

Is the purpose of the patrol board contingent upon being able to see posts one cannot understand or adequately patrol?

[LoyceV]

I must misunderstand the purpose of the Patrol board then.

I too was just guessing.

I don't see what good it does anybody to see boards/posts they cannot read or understand; although, I've been wrong before and I could easily be missing an important nuance of the system.

Certain spammers spam all boards, those can be spotted on patrol without being able to read other posts on those boards.

[bill gator]

I too was just guessing.

Well, at least we're trying to get closer to understanding what's going on. The exclusions in the downloading would help to some degree, but it still remains inconvenient (maybe I'm being unduly whiny).

Certain spammers spam all boards, those can be spotted on patrol without being able to read other posts on those boards.

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 would just feel more comfortable reporting/patrolling only those posts which I can understand.

[LoyceV]

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.

[bill gator]

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 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.

I don't have a VPS lying around per-se, but I still might take you up on that offer. I'm a bit illiterate about this kind of thing, but it would be really damn helpful to have that as a resource at my disposal.

You are taking me to school about things I'm failing to consider. I hadn't even thought about English posts in other language sections. I'll try patrolling with all of the unknown languages enabled before we go through all of the work of setting it up your way; see if I can catch some of the people you're describing/linking.

I suppose, if nobody else has anything to add I'll end up locking the topic; since there are many things I had not considered and many solutions that are available. I'll lock this later tonight if nobody has anything to add.