"Top 250" Titles You Haven't Seen not excluding titles

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Whenever I'm on the Highest Rated IMDb "Top 250" Titles You Haven't Seen page with this URL, it still displays movies I have seen/in my watchlist.

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John Adams

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Posted 7 years ago

7 years ago

Emperor, Champion

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I just checked it.

I have seen a number of films on there but not rated them, so I threw on some ratings and reloaded the page - it then removed all the ones I'd just rated,

It is worth noting that it doesn't exclude based on your watchlist or a list you are using to monitor which you've watched, but against the films you've rated. If films are showing up in that list with blue stars on (and you've done a hard refresh to make sure it is bringing you the most recent films), then yes, there is a problem. If not then it is doing what it is supposed to.

This is what will exclude your watchlist from the Top 250:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?grou...

If you have a watched list, then you can add that list's ID to the lists value.

7 years ago

John Adams

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Nice! Thank you very much for this.

However, wouldn't you say that the title
Highest Rated IMDb "Top 250" Titles You Haven't Seen
is a bit misleading in this case?

Anyway, thanks again :)

7 years ago

Emperor, Champion

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However, wouldn't you say that the title
Highest Rated IMDb "Top 250" Titles You Haven't Seen
is a bit misleading in this case?

Well I was wondering about that, but you'd have to watch it to rate it and the ratings are the only special list (one that has a keyword, so they can generate the link very easily) that comes the closest to a list of films you've seen.

Now someone has mentioned the idea of having a "Watched" button and list (which would then include a list with a "watched" keyword) but staff have suggested the check-in button does this job (and I assume any such list would replicate the check-in and ranking features, so might be redundant - it also encourages people to rank the films they watch) and it'd start to clutter up the interface:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...

As I say, I use the My Movies Watched list that I think came ready rolled in the early implementation of the lists (anyone can start their own) and can then use the ID of that against the Top 250:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?grou...

Just find your own watched list ID and put it in as the lists value there, making sure to include the exclude switch !.

7 years ago

bluesmanSF, Champion

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I believe many use watchlist for those they want to watch. So, I agree...ratings means you've seen it, to most folks, so it's the better thing to base watched/ not watched on.

I love the watch vs watched list idea best though.

7 years ago

Mahmoud Hamed

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Thank you very much

7 years ago

Mahmoud Hamed

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why in my "Highest Rated IMDb "Top 250" Titles You Haven't Seen" list there are movies that i had seen?

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