@-_-1 you might be focused on accomplishing only one of two things. Your approach makes a clean station, that's cool. But many of us want to have stations without radio edits. The issue is that a thumbs-down on a radio edit also causes a thumbs-down on the explicit version, which removes it from the station entirely, which is not the intended effect. The easiest approach for Pandora would be to add options to the thumbs-down so you could rid yourself of the song entirely, as with current behavior, or your could thumbs-down just the artist (in the case of someone covering a great song and ruining it), or you could thumbs-down the version (such as extended or radio edit or live versions, just in case you don't always want the extended live version of Sultans of Swing, for example). Especially with hip-hop and rap, clean versions just destroy the original. And while I don't want my kids hearing most (/any) of that, just yet, when I'm alone in my office I like to hear dirty, dirty south as it was intended.
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