Adam 1. Could you explain the rules for anyone other than me removing thumbs-up for a particular song? 2. Also, what are the rules for how frequently individual songs that I have thumbs-up'ed will be played? I have been listening to Pandora for 8 years. I have always kept a separate list of songs that I thumbs-up'ed (your list – for some unknown reason – only has the more recent songs). About 16 months ago, I started noticing that songs that I had thumbs-up'ed were getting played, but they no longer had my thumbs up. I started spending a lot of time – entirely too much time, to be honest – trying to figure out what was happening. Now I know that in the course of a 28-song play history, typically one of those songs will show up without my thumbs up. I will dutifully re-thumbs up it, but I know after a certain amount of time, even those songs that I have re-thumbs-up'ed will drop their thumbs up. It is as if your system has a leak in the bottom of the bucket – a sort of planned pruning of my careful curating. This is frustrating because I assume that my thumbs-up will remain indefinitely and that only I can remove it. Relatedly, I have been trying to figure out how frequently your system plays songs that have been thumbs-up'ed. As I have been paying close attention the past 16 months, I would estimate that 40-50% of my thumbs-up'ed songs have not played a single time, whereas others have played more than 60 times just in the last 4 months. My hypothesis is that your system has removed my thumbs-up, and that almost 50% of my curating is lost. I re-inputted 260 of those "lost" songs through "add variety," and some of them have been re-populated, always without my thumbs-up, thereby validating my hypothesis at least in part. If my hypothesis that your company periodically removes my thumbs up is correct, is there an efficient way to recover those dropped songs without waiting another 8 years for them to show up randomly?
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