Feature Request: Hide TV Show/Movie per profile (exclusive hiding, not inclusive hiding)

Motivation
Profiles that are not the account owner should be able to exclude entire shows/movies on the fly in order clean up the clutter left by shows/movies that other profiles watch. This will clear up an account with multiple profiles ranging from kids shows to adult-focused content appearing in profiles that shouldn’t or don’t want to see other content. A quick for instance: A teenager adds several shows that the parents have absolutely no interest in watching, yet those shows still appear in the parents’ account. The parents don’t want to tag content that they want to watch, because they regularly add new movies and shows and don’t want to have to tag all new content to either be allowed/disallowed.

Problem

  1. I realize entirely that people accomplish something similar by using tagging (tagging content and then limiting a profile to that tag).
  2. This is a backwards solution that requires continually tagging new shows and movies that are added. If one forgets to tag new content, then it just won’t show up in the profile, because it hasn’t been tagged.
  3. So users either keep up with this maintenance tag or they abandon the method altogether, reverting back to the master account, or deleting the account with tag limitations.
  4. This shouldn’t be relegated to the system folder level. Plex is an advanced media library with built in account/profiles support. Hiding folders per profile removes the convenience of creating master folders based on type of content, not genre of content, which folders shouldn’t care about.

Proposed resolution
2. Simply reverse the logic. Developer an in-app UI menu feature that adds a “Hide show/movie” menu item.
3. This menu item adds an “Exclude” tag, which hides the show/movie from the profile which tagged it.
4. The show/movie remains completely hidden from library, recently added, up next, discover, etc. for that profile.
5. Optionally, add a new menu item list somewhere within the profile which shows all content tagged with this tag, so that privileged users can unhide content. That way if someone hides something on accident, they can make it reappear.
6. Profit! Users will be much happier being able to hide just The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse from their profile without having to go through and tag the other 100 shows/movies to appear in their account.

Final thoughts
Pretty please.

This would be highly valuable for me.

I am the only one who adds new shows/movies to my Plex library and since I share with family and several friends, I get many requests for items that I would never watch. I have Ombi setup so that they can make requests for items but as am required to approve/deny everything, there won’t be things added that I am not aware of.

Currently, I add shows for a person and then go mark the new item as ‘Played’ since I have my Plex client filtered on ‘Unplayed’, I only see the things that are relevant to me. As new episodes are added, I have to constantly go back and mark those new episodes as ‘Played’.

It would be nice to have a “Not Interested” or similar option that would automatically make anything new added for that show as ‘Played’ and never show up as a ‘Recently Added Item’ or as an ‘Unplayed’ item in my view. Of course this would be a permanent option until such time that maybe I do want to watch the show and can go back in and mark it as ‘Interested’ and ‘Unplayed’.

Thank you for all the work that is done, especially the newest latest option on my LG client. :slight_smile:

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Maybe a silly question… just double-checking to avoid we keep duplicates that distract votes.
While significantly shorter… is this going in a similar direction as what you’ve been asking about? The link below keeps the focus more generic but asks for users to hide items they don’t want to see in a shared/their library

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YES!!! PLEASE PLEASE can we add a function to hide specified newly added TV episodes. I am SO SICK of seeing the host of Block Islands face!!!