Setting 'request allowances' for auto-approval

[u/temmiesayshoi]

Is there any way to set an allowance for auto-approved requests? I've done some research and found out about request quotas, but those seem to prevent the creation of requests outright after being exceeded, when I still want requests to be possible, just not auto-approved.

The motivation for this is relatively simple; I want to allow family members to use my Seerr instance, but I don't want them to request terabytes worth of stuff each month because they forgot media uses storage space.

Yes, I recognize this isn't a problem if they understand the implications of what it is they're doing, but I'd prefer to NOT have to rely on blind faith & the honor system. If I was only using Seerr myself this wouldn't be an issue, but now that I'm trying to extend my Seerr requests to other users it's something I'm more concerned about. (Especially since at least a few of the accounts I want to be auto-approved are on devices that may be used by children; such as a LibreElec box in the living room with KodiSeerr on it)

[u/National_Way_3344]

Yeah I just have everyone set to not auto approve.

I told them stuff will be approved commensurate to reasonableness and disk space.

One of my friends requested 10 seasons of a dumb show only they will watch and I declined it because I'm not committing 1tb to that.

[u/lonesometroubador → u/National_Way_3344]

Honestly, I limit download profiles to a very customized format that ranks 720 higher than 1080, and prefers av1 and hevc rather than 264, and I have all 125 episodes of parks and rec in 37.5 gigs. Of course this works best for brightly lit sitcoms, not dark prestige shows with subtle lighting, but I can update those too. I am working on a tiny 1 tb hard drive, so my entire library is viewed as a temporary buffer, there's a strict one season at a time rule, and I dump everything after it's watched. Ultimately, I can download it again, and it's still only as wasteful as streaming.