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But there is a dislike button in Spotify, specifically in the Discover Weekly playlist where most of the recommendations happen? https://community.spotify.com/

• CamperBob2 5y ago
  The dislike button seems to come and go at random. Sometimes it's available in the desktop app, sometimes not. Sometimes I have the option to dislike songs in CarPlay, sometimes not. It's as if they hired B. F. Skinner as an engineering consultant.
  • siva7 5y ago
    Not only that, sometimes the dislike button doesn’t seem to do anything
    • CamperBob2 5y ago
      Exactly, hence the Skinner analogy (the power of intermittent rewards being a key observation in behaviorist psychology.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules_of_reinforcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules_of_rei... The real hackers understand this sort of thing intuitively, and companies like Spotify pay big bucks for their insight. We nerds are just their tools.
  • sasha_at_piki 5y ago
    And most people didn't use it so they (mostly) got rid of it..
• coder543 5y ago
  No... unfortunately, that has been gone for probably close to a year now, replaced with a "Hide Song" button that doesn't seem to influence the algorithm in any way.
  • sasha_at_piki 5y ago
    I'm the creator of Piki, the Cornell Tech app mentioned in the article. Give it a try, if you want next level recommendations https://piki.page.link/Rng5 https://piki.page.link/Rng5
• sasha_at_piki 5y ago
  Discover Weekly has been de-prioritized. It used to be left right and center...