Ideas: Thumbs Down conflates “dislike” with “wrong station”

[RoadkingDon]

The problem is that Pandora only offers Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down. Using Thumbs Down incorrectly signals that I dislike the song itself, potentially affecting recommendations across my entire account. 

🎛️ Current state (broken)

• 👍 Thumbs Up = “More like this everywhere”

• 👎 Thumbs Down = “Less of this (maybe everywhere)”

• ❌ No way to say: “Fine song, wrong room”

✅Proposed solution: Contextual Feedback Control

Add a third icon next to 👍 👎:

🧭 “Wrong station”

(tooltip: “This song doesn’t fit this station”)

Behavior rules (important):

• Removes the song only from this station

• Does not affect:

• Artist affinity

• Other stations

• Global taste profile

• Trains station boundaries instead of taste

Optional refinement (power-user gold)

Long-press 🧭 → submenu:

• Wrong genre

• Wrong era

• Too far outside core artist

• Experimental / fusion bleed-over

Even one generic “Wrong station” option would solve 80% of the problem.

[patagoniadave]

I totally agree with this.

[chrisperrault]

Agreed. You used to have the ability to move it to another station and they got rid of that as well.

[TannerPandora]

Hi @RoadkingDon 

Thank for visiting the Ideas Board!

We’re always looking to improve, and getting feedback like this definitely helps with that. I've gone ahead and updated that status of your post to Open Ideas.

Thanks for taking the time to visit community!

[sebiar78]

Agreed.  I have long been afraid of using Thumbs Down for this same reason.  As a result, I just skip it, and hope that does the job of "Wrong Station".  [Probably Not]

[jlp78]

I was told once that thumbs-downing a song only registers for that particular rendition.  For example, I don't want to hear live versions of music and prefer studio recordings.  I thumbs-down any time I get a live version (when I can... unfortunately you can't thumbs-down a recording that you searched for).

[CSass]

Actually, should be given two options: "I don't like this song." and "This type/style of music is not a match for this station." Actually, ad a third option: "Both applies."

You can **ahem**e a song but the song doesn't match the station. Or it's, in fact, both!

In the same vein, even Thumb Ups should also offer options: "I like this song, but do not use it to tailor the station." and "Yes, play more of this song and play similar."

[asdhgjkklbh]

Bring back "move to another station"!