I recently stumbled upon a ton of items that aren’t on TMDB anymore, but still on Trakt. The handling of those items seems problematic. They remain on Trakt until reported for removal. The report window has this info that sometimes items need to be merged and I’d assume that’s why items not available on TMBD anymore aren’t deleted automatically, but that procedure leads to A LOT of orphan movies and shows on Trakt. These shouldn’t be part of the database and clutter it up. Any ideas on how to handle this better going forward?
If we see this as a real issue, I would suggest a cut-off regarding the amount of plays. If an item has been removed from TMDB, but it has more than x plays on Trakt, it doesn’t get removed from Trakt automatically but is added to a pipeline for manual control to check if a merge is necessary, if it has less, it gets deleted automatically.
Data from trakt never automatically gets removed. It has to be reported and merged or deleted manually by trakt mods.
Yeah, that’s what I said. But do you see my problem with that? There’s sooo much content on Trakt that shouldn’t be there and no one can realistically go through all of that and report it/delete it manually.
Oh yes. I understand what you mean now. Yea it would be nice to somehow have some sort of logic to weed out the easy ones to remove. Maybe not done daily but maybe weekly or even just monthly.
Yeah, exactly
On the bright side the mod takes care of the reports quickly. I’ve reported hundreds of entries for deletion and they get deleted within 48 hours.
But yeah there really needs to be a way to mass report stuff or something.
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Yeah totally, I’ve also made very good experiences with the team. 