Every time PageCrawl detects a change, you can give quick feedback with the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. This feedback helps you organize your review workflow and tells PageCrawl which changes are useful and which ones are noise.

Where to Find the Buttons

The feedback buttons appear in several places:

• Page view, next to each detected change in the timeline
• Review Board, when opening a change card
• Email notifications, as quick-action buttons at the bottom of each change email
• Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram notifications, as inline action buttons next to each detected change
• Browser extension, when reviewing changes on the go

You can give feedback directly from any of the notification channels above, no login required. You are taken to a short confirmation page that records the feedback, then returned to the change (or a simple confirmation screen if you are not signed in).

What Happens When You Press Thumbs Up

Pressing thumbs up flags the change as important or useful. This tells PageCrawl:

• The change is the kind of update you want to be notified about
• Similar changes on this page should continue to be surfaced
• The change has been reviewed, so it is marked as seen automatically

If your workspace has feedback auto-review enabled, the change card also moves from "To Review" to your chosen destination lane on the Review Board (for example, a "Reviewed" or "Important" lane). You can configure which lane thumbs-up feedback moves cards to from the Review Board settings.

What Happens When You Press Thumbs Down

Pressing thumbs down flags the change as noise or irrelevant. This does several things:

1. The change is marked as seen so it no longer counts as unread
2. PageCrawl learns from the feedback and may automatically filter similar irrelevant changes on the same page in the future
3. You may be offered a suggested action to prevent this type of change from triggering alerts again. Depending on what changed, you might see:
   • "Ignore numbers" if the change was only numeric (view counts, stock tiers, price variants that do not matter to you)
   • "Remove dates" if the change was a date or timestamp update
   • "Ignore this text" if a specific phrase repeatedly appears in the diff
4. The card moves to your configured "noise" lane on the Review Board, if feedback auto-review is enabled

You can accept or dismiss the suggested action. Accepting it applies the filter so similar changes are automatically filtered on future checks.

Inverse Pattern Warning

If you press thumbs down on a change involving state-toggle text (for example, "in stock" to "out of stock", "available" to "unavailable", "open" to "closed"), PageCrawl shows a warning. This is because telling the system to ignore a change in one direction could cause it to also ignore the reverse change, which is often something you actually want to be alerted about. Read the warning carefully before confirming.

When Should You Press Thumbs Up?

Press thumbs up when:

• The detected change is exactly the kind of update you set up this monitor for
• You want to confirm that a pricing, availability, or content change was correctly caught
• You want to keep a record of meaningful changes in your "Important" or "Reviewed" lane
• You want to train PageCrawl to continue surfacing this type of change

Examples:

• A competitor dropped their price from $49 to $39
• A job listing you were tracking has been posted
• A terms-of-service page added a new clause
• A product page switched from "Out of stock" to "In stock"

When Should You Press Thumbs Down?

Press thumbs down when:

• The change is not relevant to your monitoring goal
• The detected text is noise, like a timestamp, view counter, random tagline, or rotating banner
• The same type of irrelevant change keeps triggering alerts
• You want to train PageCrawl to filter out similar changes on future checks

Examples:

• The page says "Last updated 3 minutes ago" and that timestamp keeps changing
• A "Users online: 1,234" counter triggered the alert
• A rotating testimonial or hero image caption changed
• A footer copyright year was updated
• A "Trending now" section showed a different product

Press thumbs down even if the change is minor. Over time, consistent feedback makes your monitors much quieter and more precise.

When Should You Not Press Either?

If a change is neutral (neither clearly useful nor clearly noise), you can leave it without feedback and simply mark it as reviewed. Feedback is not mandatory. Only use it when you have a clear opinion, because consistent signals produce better filtering than mixed ones.

Clearing Feedback

If you change your mind, reopen the change and press the same button again to clear the flag, or press the opposite button to overwrite the previous feedback. Clearing feedback does not automatically remove any filters that were added as a result of it. Those filters are managed separately under the page's actions and ignore rules.

Tips for Better Results

• Be consistent. The more feedback you give, the faster PageCrawl learns what you care about.
• Accept suggested actions when they look right. A single "Ignore numbers" or "Remove dates" action can eliminate most repeat false positives on a page.
• Configure auto-review lanes on the Review Board so feedback also organizes your workflow, not just your filtering.
• Use feedback from notification channels (email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram) when you are away from the app. They work with no login required.
• Review your filters periodically. Feedback-driven filters live alongside the page's other actions and ignore rules, and can be edited or removed any time.

Related

• Review Board for organizing changes into lanes based on feedback
• Reducing False Positives for a complete guide to quieter monitors
• AI-Powered Change Detection for how AI priority scores work alongside your feedback