Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Is this really what is wanted?/reply (12)

(I'm not sure where to put this; I really dislike Liquid threads.) I see two really major problems in the proposed implementation which to me would make everything very much more difficult:  One. the list view is much more expanded. the way I patrol, the way i think most experienced people patrol, is to scan an entire large portion of list for something which strikes us as worth our noticing. By this I mean, not anything that needs attention, but something that needs the particular attention that I in particular can and want to give it at this particular time. There is no way i can reduce this to a single algorithm, because I know I look for a very wide range of different things at different times, depending on my degree of alertness, the time available, and what I am most concerned with that day. Some of the things I look for could be made into an algorithm, but not all. I rely of my sense of what seems weird to me; I normally scan a screen's worth and pick out a single particular questionable item. Sometimes in a half-minute,sometimes slower. (I do not even attempt to go systematically--I find what I find; there's too much to see everything.)   Now, perhaps it is intended that the expanded list version displayed will be collapsable, but unless the default view is as compact as the present one, I'll have no use for it. The best thing you could do to help me patrol is to maintain the present interface exactly as it is--as an alternate. I say as an alternate, because others probably would do better with a different display. But for me, there is no change in the display that would be an improvement. Two, you seem to have defined New Pages as pages that have not yet been patrolled. That's of little value to me. What I am really looking for is errors in the pages that have been patrolled. I'm not actually patrolling new pages; I'm patrolling the patrollers--both at the explicitly patrolled pages and the autopatrolled ones. Again, maintaining the exact same current interface as an alternate would let me do what I want to do, and what I know how to do. (I assume others think it of some value, whether or not they want to work the way I do).