Ability to block (or hide comments from) certain users

Hi,

I’d really like to see some sort of blocking feature or maybe just the ability to hide comments from specific users. I guess the difference would be that the first is a two-way feature and the second would be one-way only.

I’m watching an episode of a show or see a trailer for a movie and I already know what type of comments I’m going to see when opening the comment section of Trakt and I’d really like to not see them anymore.

To be clear this is not needed for most of the comments on the site but it’s nonetheless a regular occurrence and it’d be great if it didn’t have to anymore.

– Jan

I know this doesn’t solve your issue, but you can flag comments that aren’t appropriate. Those alerts come to us and usually the comment is deleted. Your mouse has to be hovering over the comment for the flag icon to appear.

Hi Kate,

thank you for your reply.

The block/hide feature would be for comments from users that don’t “fit” the criteria (at least in my understanding) for deletion. These comments are often connected to topics that are in the center of the current political discourse (in the US), like diversity in regards to race or sexual orientiation or other topics like women’s reproductive rights, and do not necessarily count as “Abusive” or “Political attack”—the two most obvious choices for comment deletion.

I tried using comment blocking plugins for Safari/Chrome but these plugins block everything or nothing and I want to read the vast majority of comments.

Because of this I’d really appreciate a user-blocking/hiding feature.

– Jan

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Seconding this! I don’t really bother with the comment feature on Trakt anymore since it’s a bit of a miserable experience (usually thanks to the same commenters repeatedly), it would be great to actually feel good about engaging with the community again!

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Based on the four votes this topic got I think there is some demand for a feature like this and I would really like to see it implemented although I can understand that you may not see the need for a blocking feature if you do not watch certain shows or movies that touch on the topics mentioned above.

Therefore I wanted to show what type of comments I am referring to. It took me less time to search for these comments than to write this post. Of course I can report each and every one of these comments but maybe half would be deleted and again I have to see them first instead of just blocking the user in question. These are obviously not one-time comments by a random user but repeated actions so I expect them to write these kinds of things again in the future.

The following comments are on different episodes, shows, and movies but by the same user as denoted.

User A wrote:

“Two wrongs make a white” Seriously? Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a comedy series. No one watches a series for it to be woke garbage. I’ll give it a chance but If I’m getting politics thrown at my face 24/7 I won’t finish this series.

Jesus Christ. This episode portrays the Police as terrorist and murderers. Can we stop highly politicising TV Shows? I do not watch shows to get politics thrown at me

Very stupid coverage of the BLM Movement.
Tried to make everything seem like a racial injustice, even the locking up of Black Hair Products. Stores lock up certain products if they’re being stolen more in comparison to other products.

1/10 Terrible Episode. Starting to see why it was cancelled.

User B wrote:

WOW! This episode is full of some major Propaganda!

Things were just chill and they weren’t? He swears they did nothing wrong? Tell that to all those business owners who got beat up and had their stores looted and destroyed. Then same businesses and more businesses the next day and the next and…So it’s one thing inserting all this political stuff in the tv shows but then lie about it completely is another.Again with another Political story?? This makes 4 in a row now! I’m about ready to stop watching this show.

Bullshit! Phone Cameras or No phone cameras! I know this is only fiction but that asshole pointed his gun at another person! You take him down asap!! This political shit is going to end up getting a lot of innocent people killed for real!!

Way too political for me. Defunded the police??Come on! Each one of those bouncers were a different race, skin color but All those policeman were white. The police made them feel unsafe? Then why not ask for each policeman of a different race because not all police are white! I watch tv shows to escape from all this crap. If all these tv shows don’t start keeping politics out of their shows I will stop watching all my tv shows.

Good episode, but there is No choice to make when it comes to your baby. All anyone ever talks about is the mothers right to choose, but not about the dad or how about that baby’s rights? Don’t you think that the baby has an important right to be born?

WOW! The world is Not going to end or be destroyed because of climate change. God & only God will be the one to end the world & only God knows when. Other than that though it’s a great episode.

Obama Care? LMAO! Obama Care was expensive as hell! Last 2 episodes have been nothing but Conservative Liberal Shit.

Really?? So sick & tired of this crap getting into the tv shows! I watch tv shows to escape all of this politically correct crap and I can’t even watch a tv show anymore without seeing this stupid politically correct crap! A Gender is a male or a female, Period! An Un-born baby and a Newborn baby is either a boy or a girl, Period! Putting this crap in the tv shows is Not going to change a lot of us in the way we see this stuff! Me and a lot of others were taught that there are boys & girls, male & females and nothing else and that’s the way it will always be no matter how hard they try and cram this crap down our throats! So they can stop any time and just get back to making tv shows without this crap!!

User C wrote:

This show, along with its Sister show, Station 19, has become so anti white, anti straight white men and so incredibly preachy. Storylines blur into one another, just as the main characters, swap partners, some shagging anything that has a pulse. Staler than a loaf of bread, covered in green mould and now on life support. Time to pull the plug.

This show is now in a state of desperation. Totally absurd storylines, in a misguided effort, to appear interesting. Now that the Trump bashing is no longer a populist theme, it has introduced a kangaroo court and ramped up the racism diatribe. A candidate for the TV dustbin, if ever there was one.

No wonder 2 of of the stars of this show have departed. Its gross left-wing bias and lack of originality, have now degraded a once entertaining drama. The stupid little songs appearing in episodes are both bizarre and banal. Now the sham storming of the capitol, takes centre stage. CBS, along with other major U.S. networks, continue to deluge us with stilted and politically motivated diarrhea, as an excuse for entertainment.

Yet another preaching session about covid and George Floyd, from the weak willed U.S. TV networks. Throw in the Democrats gun policy and you have the full set. What should we expect though, after the previous season spent vilifying Trump. Another show, becoming tiresome and predictable.

What shit. I’m black, I’m persecuted. I’m black, I never do any wrong. Sickening regurgitated crap. Shondaland, sponsored by BLM.

Now this increasingly gut wrenching show, moves on to vaccine propaganda. After this season, I will not be watching any more of this tired, nauseating rubbish. Well past its sell by date.

Another show that was decent, now turned into a propaganda machine. Covid, racism, native American issues, now climate change. Max has been turned from an interesting character, looking to do the best for patients, using unorthodox methods into a whining, left-wing pussy, who is constantly preaching. So sad how pretty good TV dramas, are being turned shit shows, with politi al agendas.

More sickening bilge from Shondacrap. Pure propaganda in favour of a real life criminal!

WTF does this episode have to do with Special Victims? Just more covid propaganda.

User D wrote:

Shit story, shit CGI, shit script, forced woke gay shit as usual in every new movie… Would rate -1 if I could.

Are actual americans buying this propaganda bullshit? Watched about 30 min. and couldn’t stand any more. Absolute shit show, would give it -10 if i could. Avoid like the plague!

These dumb cunts are still doing this ameritard propaganda ? This so called “movie” sucks ball with the old worn out “Russia bad, US best” crap. Do yourselves a favor, just watch CNN or Fox news, it would be more realistic.

User E wrote:

Sure let’s make the government of Venezuela out to be a right leaning Nationalist party and make them the bad guys, since we all know that the actual current leftest government of Venezuela is just such a paradise! This episode has a complete different feel from the 1st season, and a large part of that stems from the writers expecting the viewers to conflate populist nationalism with socialism. The writers seem to have a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Easily the worst episode of the series. The writer has obviously been spending too much time on Twitter.

How many episodes is going to have the Alt-Right as the enemy? So bored with that already. I wonder how long it will take them to do an episode on the Alt-Left?

It is so painful when “intellectuals” discuss the 2nd Amendment.

This had to be in the top ten of the worst written TV episodes in history. Seems like it was written by the HRC campaign.

Since when did NCIS become a comedy? Michelle Obama sitting in on a US military veterans round-table? Funniest thing I saw all year!

User F wrote:

See, Star trek? They could have made the two guys to be gay. They did not.

Lesbian thing kinda ok, could be done better, and not necessary, but much worse ways to be “correct”

Affermitive action and gay thing that needs to be included in every movie and TV show now was certainly done in much more intrusive ways.

Interesting how long socks just work on asian woman :smiley:

This would be such a good show, but the forced lesbian thing made it unwatchable for me.

Hahaha, that black guy at the start. Ffs just cast where it makes sense. Stop this affermitive action racial equity political correctness bullshit. It is in reality rassist and disgraceful to non Caucasian race people and just makes me sad for our society :frowning:

does not pretend to be something it is not.
no forced gay or racial equity, yay.

Would give 8, but gains one point for the camera during fights. No other movie was this good this year, at least.
Also no forced gay or racial equity - such a rare thing these days! So you know what? It is a 10.

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I wanted to give an update because this is still happening and I’m stumbling over comments and their respective authors time and again.

The latest example was the season premiere of Billions where I wanted to check out the description, saw a lot of comments and immediately thought to myself: “I guess someone said something about a minority, a woman or whatever…”. In the comment section of the newest Matrix movie you just have to type woke into the search box and get comment after comment.

Because of that I now resorted to deleting the app and using the mobile website with a comment blocking addon (same with the regular website) until hopefully a user hiding/blocking feature is implemented which I really hope it will be. The absolute majority of the Trakt user base writes great, insightful and funny comments and even reviews but a tiny minority ruins it repeatedly.

As @lalo perfectly described it: “it’s a bit of a miserable experience”.


User G wrote:

Weak! as an episode, as a setting a new “boss” and the writing was atrocious and filled with social justice warrior bs that has contaminated everything in Hollywood. That agenda is boring, ineffective, obvious and idiotic

The message of optimism in Star Trek are a thing of the past, now everything is dark, unfunny and with class hate. Btw all dumb characters are white and male and all smart and witty are female and of any other color than white, very subtle there guys, very subtle.

Guess they have a villain that looks like Trump! BTW I’m not even american and I’m already tired of that crap wish I could vote Trump just out of spite. Fuck off with this garbage.

Another series that I drop! The idea and concept are good and endering but the execution its mediocre at best, and the political bs, the anti-capitalism is just in your face, the acting of the asians actors is bad like really bad, the agenda it’s just to obvious the subtlety of puting Trump face each time they speak about climate, really? well no more, it’s just so tiresome. Oh forgot, in the last episode the woman scientist just punch a guy in the face because womyn and capitalistic pig! Then go and disobey a direct order, get lost and then rescue by the pig. Not even a thank you, pig! wtf.

User H wrote:

It appears political correctness took over the writers. How disappointing…

Political shite. This is not the Chicago P.D. that I’ve watched for 7 seasons and I am rather disappointed.

Why do they have to push a political agenda…

If the ending wasn’t there, it would have been much better. Since when was this show so influenced by political leanings. Truly disappointing. At least the writers admitted The Simpsons is better in the episode.

Fairly poor episode. Whilst some of the jokes were amusing, it began to get old and this episode seemed to lack what many of the earlier episodes have. Additionally, TV shows should not be used to push a political agenda and to further divide a country.

User I wrote:

Where was this group of “diverse” heroes when Thanos attacked in Infinity War and Endgame? One of the many plot holes that this film has, added to the boring general plot. Without a doubt a waste of time, and this confirms that Marvel is no longer in its best days.

John Boyega… top quality of a shit movie.

The movie that show us how Disney and Marvel see the world, feminism on all. A lame story and characters full of politics agenda. The last good movie of marvel was Endgame, this movie is far from be a movie just a spot to tell you how a bad script is done.

Wokeflix attacks again, Teela as She-man? Orko dead? Multiverse with feminism? No thanks i will keep the original series as canon, not this.

User J wrote:

Woke nonsense… 2 and a half hours I won’t get back The ‘escapism’ of watching movies is dead, as every single new flick has to be infused with wokeism and politics

Should have been labeled ‘loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov’… Absolutely butchered the books… Disgrace… Woke nonsense

On a positive note, it is beautifully made and the actors do an excellent job.

“I don’t want to choose … What if I date you both?” I am not that woke/openminded … disgusting

Oh the wokeness … SJW’s must love it

I hate it when they have to bring politics into the movies we use to escape our political world #stopwokemovies
And I think Tessa overacted just a tad too much and K was sorely missed

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I’d also vote for the “hide comments from a certain user” feature. For me they don’t need to know I’m blocking them, I just don’t want to read the comments. Some people seem to watch stuff they obviously hate just to leave very negative comments. I watch what I like to watch and am not interested in those type of comments over and over again from the same user. So I don’t want to report anyone, it is their right to hate stuff and be negative about it, I just would like the possibility to not see it. There are usually very few comments on the shows I watch and most are interesting, insightful, thought-provoking or just nice.

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We haven’t forgotten about this and we’re planning some comment related updates soon. We potentially will have things like up and downvoting, to help naturally bury unpopular comments. I’m actually planning to sit down this week and come up ideas for enhancing/fixing commenting.

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The problem with up/down voting is that genuine comments get buried because people vote because the review doesnt match there own

So if you have a movie that 90% hate, then any positive reviews will get downvoted, and the reviews become meaningless (and vice versa)

I have seen many sites try the up/down voting and the results are all very skewed to what the majority think, legitimate good/bad reviews get buried

Personally, I hope you keep an option to see all reviews, in review date order, ordering them based on up/down votes would just make the reviews meaningless for me

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Users can be blocked on the Trakt website now. Hover over a comment and click the new block user icon. Once blocked, all their comments and replies are automatically collapsed and faded out. Since the comment pages are all cached and shared for all users, that’s why I went with a collapse+fade. If you ever need to, just click on a blocked comment to display it.

This feature is web only for now, but will make it to the iOS app soon too once we’ve tested on the web for a little while.

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Is there a way to unblock someone? As of right now I can’t for the life of me figure it out.

Planning to add that next week.

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Sign in to Trakt - Trakt near the bottom

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This topic was automatically closed 120 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.

Blocked user comments will be completely removed when viewing the website now, instead of just collapsing. This change affects any media page (movie, show, season, episode) and any replies to a comment. If you view comments on a user’s profile you have blocked, they will be visible but collapsed.

Website is updated now and Trakt apps will have the update soon too. 3rd party apps can also have this if they make a small update.

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Hi Justin,

Is there a way to unblock my own account if I accidentally blocked one of my comments? This looks like a bug, where the logged-in user can block themselves through comment replies.

Thank you in advance.

@durack There is a “comments” option in the Hidden items. Are you listed there?

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Thank you so much. Yes. I was listed there, and was able to unblock myself.

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