I wish to block movie ratings (ie IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes) as I do not want another party to set expectation of any film I am about to watch. I cannot see any way of doing this in the GUI, is there any way at all of blocking ratings on movies? I enjoy Plex, but this is a real issue for me.

You cannot currently do that. There’s a feature suggestion asking for an option to select “none” as a rating source – though it’s seen little interest by the community so far (=number of votes). [image] Please add 'None' to 'Ratings Source' choices Feature Suggestions Pl…

Ok thank you. Surprised it has not much traction, I would of thought there are a lot of people who feel the same. I might have to stick to using VLC, I prefer to go into movies blind and this seems to be the only way to do that.

Also surprised it is considered a request of little interest. For some time I get complaints that at least a third of the screen is wasted to display foreign language reviews and ratings which noone ever reads. I seconded the request.

Disabling reviews is yet another suggestion (rather more popular) [image] Disable reviews Feature Suggestions Give the administrator and or users the ability to disable reviews. I really don’t care what others especially critics think of my favourite films.

I go in blind too. I’ve never trusted user ratings anyway, so the “X out of 5 stars” graphics or review percentages have just been filtered out of my mind on all sites automatically. And the large row of reviews I guess I also manage to ignore until I want to look at it.

Using Plex HTPC I don’t see reviews, but the OP asked about ratings. So using HTPC to view my Home screen full of various films and using the keyboard to place my selection box on a film, I see covering the top half of the screen: Title Year, Runtime, Genre, PG-13 type rating, Watched status [Plo…

How to block movie ratings?

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tom80H September 19, 2022, 10:13pm 5

Disabling reviews is yet another suggestion (rather more popular)

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