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Patrol Reputation Cap Display

Hello! So I've been browsing the patrol tab a lot lately, and I have a gripe about it. It doesn't actually display the amount of reputation you need to patrol an edit. This makes patrolling edits incredibly tedious, as the only way I know of to tell if you have a high enough amount of reputation to patrol the edit is to open up each edit and check to see if you can patrol it. My proposed solution is to add an interface that displays the amount of reputation you need to patrol each edit beside each edit-to-be patrolled. If you're reading this and have the ability to make a change like that, I'd appreciate it if you did. I think it would make patrolling edits a lot less tedious!

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I set mine to 25-30k rep points to edit without approval as I just want a reasonable quality filter in place realistically and I’ve kept it that way for years at this point lol (seriously if I wanted to raise it I would at most set it to 30k/35k patrol and call it, and I have enough points I can be evil and make it impossible for anyone but the few with years here to not need approval — yet I’ve never done it and at 100k rep points I absolutely have that power). I do it as a quality filter, not to be a dick to others for lack of a better term. 30k for me is when I need to be sure about edits and anything exceeding those needed it.

I disagree. Having it private means someone can’t rep farm their way up to the point they can poison your guide with bad edits, even if you set it at a level nobody can edit without approval. Now if it’s silly high at 100k+ I could see putting a warning about the threshold but if the author isn’t using it beyond a reasonable level like I do then we should be able to keep the threshold private. Authors can enable edit alerts which I can check, and even if I apply 10 edits I get alerted to my own edits. The system doesn't discriminate (tho I wish it did for author edits lol), so that's also why I'm confident in such a low (but reasonable) guard threshold.

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Just to clarify, I mean adding an indicator that tells would-be patrollers how much rep they need to have to patrol an edit, in case my intent was unclear. It could even be something like a "You don't have enough rep to patrol this edit" like it is within the patrol interface itself. It would make patrolling edits way less tedious. I understand the purpose of the rep minimums, but for the purposes of patrolling, I think that it would just make it easier if you didn't have to click into each edit just to see if you can patrol it.

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