New options for patrol pages and ignore board preferences (profile page), please

[tranthidung]

There are two patrol pages:
(1) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol
(2) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;nobounty
The second page limited to posts outside bounty threads.

I am curious and ask myself that whether I can limited posts in a few boards by using Ignore board preferences in my profile page. I tried, and failed.

By the way, I discovered that in Ignore board preferences, there are some main boards, that I can choose it to ignore all subboards inside (Bitcoin Discussion; Development & Technical Discussion; Mining, e.g.); but there are few boards that I can not do it, such as Local. What can I do if I want to ignore all local boards in patrol page. There is no option to do this, by now.

It will be helpful for reporters if they want to focus on specific boards to find spam posts, through patrol page.

I suggest:

• Adding option (checkbox) for some boards (Local, e.g.) in ignore preference board
• Adding option to choose specific boards in patrol page

Users can manually customize their patrol page

Patrol isn't really hidden. You can make a link to it appear at the top of each page immediately above the link to your Watchlist by going to Profile - Forum Profile Information - and checking the box titled "Show patrol link".

What is hidden is that you can customize the patrol link to view other recent posts. Patrol shows the last 200 posts by newbie accounts. If you delete ";patrol" from the link, so you are left with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent, you will see the last 100 posts by all accounts. You can also customize this by adding ";boards=x,y,z" on to the end, where x, y, z (and so on) are the boards you are interested in. For example:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1 will show the last 100 posts in Bitcoin Discussion
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=7,8,57 will show the last 100 posts in Economics, Speculation and Trading Discussion.

You can also chain this together together with patrol, so for example:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1;patrol will show all the posts by newbies on Bitcoin Discussion out of the last several hundred newbies posts. I'm not sure exactly how many recent newbie posts the forum keeps on file to populate this list from, but it's not a huge number (in the region of several hundred) I think, and since the vast majority of newbie posts are spamming the altcoin boards with bounty reports, then usually this will only show you a small handful of posts.

But there is still the first suggestion, Ignore preference boards should have more main boxes. Currently there are some boards, that only have child boxes for child boards.

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[LoyceV]

What can I do if I want to ignore all local boards in patrol page. There is no option to do this, by now.

Sure there is: just click all boxes
If you want to switch often, just create another account, and use it in a different browser with a large ignore list. I ignore many boards on LoyceMobile, while I see everything on this account.

I suggest:

• Adding option to choose specific boards in patrol page

You can select boards like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1,77,6,37,4;patrol
I'm not sure who taught me that, but I keep this one bookmarked.
Update: It was o_e_l_e_o.

[tranthidung]

Sure there is: just click all boxes

TBH, I thought of it, a global checkbox for all boards, when I composed this topic, but it looks crazy, so I did not include it in OP.
One click, and finish. I would go crazy if I have to click all boxes.

You can select boards like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1,77,6,37,4;patrol
I'm not sure who taught me that, but I keep this one bookmarked.

Excellent. Thank you.
I updated my thread: Do you often use report button? There are guides to more effectively report

I just discovered interesting things on patrol page, so I updated the thread today.

Now, let me presenting what I discovered.

Beside the standard patrol page, that most of us know, at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol ⁽¹⁾
There is another 'hidden' patrol page, in which posts made in bounty threads disabled by default, at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol ⁽²⁾. I knew about that page by @suchmoon or @Vod, and originally it was disclosed in Russian board.

Generally

• The (1) page is overwhelming spam posts, and there is no reason to find spam posts in bounty threads, with abundant proof of authentication or weekly report posts
• The (2) page is more helpful, but by default, there are still so many posts over many boards

So, what users can do if they want to limit posts in their interest boards, such as Altcoin Discussions?
There is solution, but users have to manually customize their patrol page. Here is a guide, given by @o_e_l_e_o

Patrol isn't really hidden. You can make a link to it appear at the top of each page immediately above the link to your Watchlist by going to Profile - Forum Profile Information - and checking the box titled "Show patrol link".

What is hidden is that you can customize the patrol link to view other recent posts. Patrol shows the last 200 posts by newbie accounts. If you delete ";patrol" from the link, so you are left with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent, you will see the last 100 posts by all accounts. You can also customize this by adding ";boards=x,y,z" on to the end, where x, y, z (and so on) are the boards you are interested in. For example:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1 will show the last 100 posts in Bitcoin Discussion
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=7,8,57 will show the last 100 posts in Economics, Speculation and Trading Discussion.

You can also chain this together together with patrol, so for example:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1;patrol will show all the posts by newbies on Bitcoin Discussion out of the last several hundred newbies posts. I'm not sure exactly how many recent newbie posts the forum keeps on file to populate this list from, but it's not a huge number (in the region of several hundred) I think, and since the vast majority of newbie posts are spamming the altcoin boards with bounty reports, then usually this will only show you a small handful of posts.

What users have to do (if they want to customize patrol page) are:
- Having a list of interest boards/ sub-boards and their identifying figures of those boards/sub-boards
- Bookmarking the customized patrol page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=X
- Changing the X value to their interest boards/ sub-boards at specific timepoints when they want to check spam posts.
Notes:
Users can includes multiple boards/ sub-boards in the customized patrol page
I listed a few boards/ sub-boards and their identifying numbers

• Meta: 24
• Bitcoin Discussion: 1
• Altcoin Discussion: 67
• Trading Discusion: 8
• Gambling Discussion: 228

[mainconcept]

As LoyceV mentioned, you can "build" a custom patrol page, Crypto-DesignService made a guide for it: Patrol custom URL guideline + list of active Forum boards

My custom patrol page is this (no local boards, no bounty section):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,14,24,34,37,39,40,41,42,51,52,53,56,57,65,67,73,74,75,76,77,78,81,83,84,85,86,87,88,93,97,98,100,129,137,138,159,160,161,167,168,197,198,199,207,212,217,222,223,224,227,228,231,234,240,250,251,261;patrol

[o_e_l_e_o]

I'm not sure who taught me that, but I keep this one bookmarked.

Was it me? You merited me for my explanation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112334.msg49854683#msg49854683