I have asked this question before and I am even more curious now that the search has changed and it always shows the most popular shows first: Mark movie/show as "not interested at all"
I want to see what is new on my streaming services or in genres I like. Every time I search like that I get so many results I don’t want ever want to watch. Yes I could put them in a list of “not interested” - but that gets me another problem: if I filter my search by “listed” those results will also pop up and I have no idea which listed items I am interested in and which I am not.
I do see only two possible options: one “not interested”-Button, that is basically another kind of list not treated as the usual lists or the ability to filter by specific lists (like “watchlisted” or “(not) on list X” and not just “listed” in general.
Am I the only one who wants this feature? Am I using Trakt differently from anybody else?
So far the only choice I have found is marking them as watched with a very low rating. I wish there was a not interested button as well because I don’t want to really associate watching most of them.
I guess it depends on your view what you consider a better option - getting better search results for yourself or skewing ratings for everyone else
I’m not saying this feature request is bad. I probably would use it too. I’m saying this suggested solution is bad. I mean, how many these not wanted items are there on a single search results page? 3? 5? Is is it that difficult just to skip them? If there are a lot of such items, that sounds more like a bad filtering Of course I don’t know your case - maybe you don’t like quite a lot of different criteria movies or shows - so I might be wrong, but without more personal taste info there’s not much anyone can suggest at the moment
@autbrat never said that their way was good or bad, nor did they suggest it to anyone as a solution. They literally just said, “the only choice I have found”.
Also, one rating isn’t going to skew everyone’s recommendations.
You’re also admitting to not knowing anything about the context of what they said or the question in general, so I’m not quite sure why you’re targeting anyone.
I’d also like this feature, but maybe for a different reason. I’m not personally worried too much about search results, but the lists in the Explore section are what annoy me.
For example, 5 of the top 12 “Trending Movies” are Christmas movies right now. I’d very much like to be able to never see those again, but I can’t because TMDB removed their “Holiday” filter in 2010. No movies or shows past that point have a “Holiday” genre anymore, so the only way would be to create my own “Holiday” or “Ignore” playlist. I don’t see much sense in doing that because of how much manual effort it would need. If there was an “Ignore” option like there is for recommendations though, that would help me a lot in situations where filters just don’t have the ability to remove enough “junk”.
It would solve a lot of problems. Now we have to go to different places and hide stuff there and then it still shows up in recommendations and others. You always see the same stuff again and again if you have it a low rating you at least know you aren’t interested. But a not interested with a note why would be perfect. No low rating skewing the overall rating, no watched stuff you didn’t watch, no stats that make you look like you do nothing else as watching stuff, no stuff showing up in recommendations, calendar and others you don’t want anymore without you hiding in different places.
An argument against I’ve seen often is then people wonder why stuff was not showing up, there is always the possibility to look for something directly and a banner or something indicating that I’m not interested and when clicked shows me the note would solve that.
they’ve commented on similar threads that ask for essentially the same thing. It’s a very low priority, if they plan to implement at all.
Some good points one of them brings up here as to why its not been implemented yet/at all and the current options that are available that will essentially do most of what people want.
I don’t think these two topics are at all related actually. The topic you linked is someone asking to “abandon” an already in-progress show or movie.
This thread is asking for a “blocklist” so that movies and shows can be hidden from everywhere. If you read my last comment from December, you’ll see what I mean and how these two threads are completely unrelated.
Edit: To clarify, I’m referring to a list of shows of movies that have never been started and that people never want to start (like Christmas movies in my case).
This could work really well if you can choose the list you want to filter by and adding the show would filter out all the episodes. I submitted a feature request for this since it has more applications than just this.
There is a “Hide” in various places. It does hide from everywhere. I use it to hide Anime/Animation as I am not interested in those genres. You can then go back to review the shows/movies you have hidden in your settings (Sign in to Trakt - Trakt). This should cover both “abandoned” and “not interested”.
I do, however, wished that @justin and @Ohifriend would add this option on the individual show/movie pages…and make it very obvious what it’s function is for. If I were a part of the dev team for Trakt, I would put a new button at the bottom of this list:
I think the purpose of this request is being muddled.
There is absolutely no functionality within the Trakt platform right now that can, in any way, fulfill this request, and I think proposals about workarounds are a diversion. The OP already acknowledged that creating a “Not Interested” list creates additional issues, and I agree with them.
The “hide” options that appear in some places are not close to being all-encompassing. The Hidden Items list only applies to the following:
Up Next & Watched Progress
Collected Progress
Calendars
Rewatching
Comments
Dropped
What this request is asking for is functionality that will hide an item within Trakt (personally, I only care about Series and Movie) from everywhere (i.e., they don’t show up in searches, recommended lists, etc, etc, etc.).
The request is clear and I think it should be acknowledged in its current form.
Whether Trakt wants to architect it in a way where, for example, hidden items are added to a hidden personal list within the user’s profile and then that personal list is always added to a filter transparently is not necessarily my concern, but it’s an approach I’ve mulled over.
Curious what @Ohifriend and/or @justin have to say. I could have sworn that they both have already said that the “Hide” function does indeed hide the show from pretty much everywhere. I haven’t tested it…so I can’t say where it hides from.
Like I said above, I do wished it was a much more clear option on the actual show/movie page…again, like I said above…put a button at the bottom of the screenshot in my previous post.
I agree with @Hayorti here, in that there’s definitely some confusion going on between the existing “Hide” options and this requested feature.
For what it’s worth, I think this is more viable than it used to be based on some recent changes, such as being able to hide your watched items from trending (currently available on tvOS and Trakt Lite), but I don’t have any idea when this particular feature might be something to be implemented as it would indeed be a new data source to take into account as far as I can tell.
Of course I don’t know your case - maybe you don’t like quite a lot of different criteria movies or shows - so I might be wrong, but without more personal taste info there’s not much anyone can suggest at the moment 
