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

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 21, 2019, 05:05:10 PM

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.