My impression is that TCIs are
never calculated automatically.
I can see this, because I doubled the "minium movies in common" percentage, but it had no effect on my TCI list. Almost all of my TCIs are "old" ones that don't meet the threshold, and the few new ones I have which do meet the threshold, I got with the "generate 50 more TCIs" button. It doesn't appear as though new ones are added by themselves.
The only other occasions, where you receive 1 new TCI, is when another user clicks on your user profile or adds 50 TCIs and you are among them, then your mutual TCI is calculated and obviously updated in your list as well.
So my impression/observation (which - again - might be totall wrong) is, that TCI calculation must be triggered manually:
- when you add 50 TCIs or
- when another user adds you as part of his new 50 TCIs or
- when you click on a userprofile in your best TCI list
- or when another user clicks on your profile (which updates your mutual TCI)
There may be other triggers I am oblivious of, but I am afraid it's always a manual trigger.
My problem is, that all of my best 1000 TCIs are calculated based on the ~50 movies I have ranked here so far, but I have a few hundred movies rated on IMDB which I have not yet imported to criticker. When I add all these movie ratings, I want that to affect my TCI list accordingly, but it won't.
As unfortunately there is no "delete all TCIs" button, it seems like I have only 2 choices:
1) delete my account (which I don't want), create a new one and add all rankings BEFORE starting to generate TCIs.
or
2) click on the userprofile of all 1000 users in my "best TCI" list, tu update my TCI list (which will take forever and a day)
Or is there another solution ?
You can test this by
- either raising the "minimum movies in common" threshold dramatically and watch out how often new TCIs meeting the new threshold appear among your 50 best TCIs
- or lowering the threshold and watch out how often new TCIs appear in your list, that are below your old threshold
An even easier and also more correct way would be to take a screenshot of your TCI list and compare it a week later.
Obviously you must not generate TCIs manually in the meantime, as the goal is to observe which (if any) TCIs are added without your intervention.
From my observations, few to none.
And if a new TCI is added/updated, this is probably because another user has manually triggered that event.
I would actually hope, that TCIs are all automatically updated periodically (in regular intervals), but I am afraid from what I can see, this does not seem the case.
When you update your userprofile, there is a section saying:
Films In Common Minimum (10-50%): [____]
Updating to a higher value removes TCIs not meeting the new minimum
But after updating to a higher value, the TCIs not meeting the new minimum are
NOT removed as you can see when you click on your "best TCIs" list.
(They are however removed, when you click on them to view their userprofile. But agin, are we supposed to click on all 1000 TCIs in the list to remove them all !?)
Maybe one of the staff members can clarify ?
Thank you.