How is this still unresolved all of these years later?!?!
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Awesome Plex, this topic has been around for almost three years, a fraction of which would take you time to make us happy. From me also with extra costs. Why don’t you go into it? What speaks against responding to the user’s request?
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Or make it a Plex Pass option, which I’d be down with too.
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+1 for me
I’ve tried Jellyfin, and its good enough for local, but I’m not ready to invest the time to get everything setup and my family converted to a new system.
I suspect they’re kinda anti Plex Pass, cus they want money, and they’ve already had ours.
RE converting to Jellyfin - if it’s good enough for local, I’ll give it a whirl. Sick to death of Plex focussing on external services I don’t use, and ignoring the home media market.
Also hello to Reddit, who found this thread in a desperate attempt to get rid of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. There’s a theme building here.
How about now? Now can we please disable them?
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Hi everyone. I didn’t see any recent feedback in here, so I am jumping in real quick. I am bookmarking this to make sure I take a read through the full thread. Thanks for all of the comments. No real response to provide right now other than I wanted to let you know it is seen and heard. I will work to provide some additional feedback once there has been some more time to read it through and discuss with a few people.
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That would be really great, thank you
Please, make it happen. As others have said here, I don’t care about ratings either. When I build my library, I logically include things that I personally enjoy, regardless of their IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes ratings. They are irrelevant to me. In particular, I have absolutely no interest in the opinions of people I don’t even know about TV shows or movies. So I join those who would be very grateful if this option could be easily turned off. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Well as nothing has changed since 2020 not really surprised the feedback had dried up.
I just manually delete them from the database.
A quick update here. This has become a bit of a discussion point internally. I can say that there are both supporters and non-supporters within Plex that have helped to make this a fun debate. No promises, but this request is at least being considered and discussed on how it could be made to happen and what that would mean and how it might be implemented. I am not going to go any deeper into this right now but once any decisions are made then we will see about posting an update again. Thanks for the ongoing discussion here, it has been heard! 
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One request please. One way or another whatever plex decides can you let us know the FINAL decision and then close this request as either implemented or no plans to ever implement.
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I am grateful this has finally been seen. Whilst I appreciate your comment, I am truthfully, bewildered about “non-supporters” of “giving us an option” to opt out of Rotten Tomatoes… This was never “get rid of Rotten Tomatoes”, it was, and remains, simply “Give us the choice”.
I’d be fascinated to the argument ‘against’ ‘give us a choice’.
Just seen you in the ebooks thread. Thank you, sincerely, for actually ‘responding’ to customer feedback and requests. That has been a major bone of contention in all of this.
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Apologies if my comments weren’t clear - what I intended was that we have people that support offering choices for metadata like this and others that feel like they want a more static interface. I wasn’t trying to indicate one way or another how we view sources of the metadata. There are obviously opinions there as well, but I am going to refrain from commenting there as I haven’t done enough reading and investigation there to feel comfortable talking through those right now.
One last note here - I don’t think that anyone is against choice specifically. All decisions carry weight - in that they take time and effort to implement. Even a “show it or not” decision means that space needs to be adjusted in the UI to either show it or to remove it. That takes some nonzero amount of effort to do that is compounded since it needs to be done multiple times across each client. If you give a choice then that choice needs to be stored somewhere requiring data storage, interfaces to that data storage, retention and recollection, etc. I don’t want the message to be “Plex doesn’t want to give everyone choices”. In this case it is not a “we don’t want to give choices” and much more of a “we have other priorities before this one to spend development resources against”. Hope that helps!
Thank you - that does make more sense, and it is clear I misinterpreted what you said. A question of priorities rather than someone with a deep desire to ensure Rotten Tomatoes is everywhere.
Whilst I entirely agree that it is nonzero, I’d like to think adding a checkbox to the library UI, a field in the database, and a snippet of code to render a div or hide it… it’s a relatively trivial challenge. It’s a lot nearer 0 than 1. 
Either way, grateful for a response.
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Thanks for the update. Just throwing in my support for this feature request as well. In my case not even the text reviews (they don’t show up for my individual TV show episodes), rather the numeric rating shown under each episode.
A lot of other points have been raised around UI clutter, objection to particular ratings sites, irritation at seeing negative reviews for movies for favorite movies, etc., but I’d like to contribute a potentially unrepresented concern with this feature, one that negatively impacts the experience even after the rating is no longer on-screen.
For me, seeing that number (and whether it goes up or down from one episode to the next) can introduce a bias of sorts at the worst possible time, right as about to start an episode. On more than one occasion I’ve finished an episode and gone to begin the next one, only to notice that it had a substantially lower rating. Before even having started the episode, the Plex UI has subtly “poisoned the well” so to speak and I’ve got this subconscious expectation in my head that this episode may be a letdown or something, which I find really, really unpleasant – especially for season finales.
Even if it turns out the episode does suck, I’d rather come to that conclusion on my own than have the UI color my opinion of it.
Thanks.
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It is bonkers to me that it has taken 3 years
THREE YEARS!
For an employee to even look at this and start a discussion internally.
During that time loads of vapid and useless updates have been made, while this begged for tick box is still missing.
It beggars belief
Please get the “we don’t want to do this because it’s too much work” members of the team to reply so we can speak with the people forcing negative reviews on us of our favourite movies.
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Good things take time.
Take it easy. You don’t wanna have a heart attack because of some reviews.
Quite, so it would be good if they removed them so as to not give me one.
