I did not suggest anything. I very clearly stated what I stated, in plain English that is very easy to understand. Your qualifications are irrelevant. Your point of view on the issue we are discussing is wrong for long-term product success, and destroys the hard work others have put into the idea, in order to feel personally superior to your users. I don't know how more plainly I can put it for you if you had trouble understanding that. I do believe however that not understanding something, is not something that has ever prevented you from action or strong and wrong opinions on a subject matter.
You’re speaking as if you work beside me and have a clue about anything in the music industry. There’s a reason Spotify doesn’t but uses to have dislike buttons more accessible. I’m not sure why you are disagreeing with me but there’s no need to speak down to someone because of different perspective. I have real world data and work in recommenders I’m not sure what your background is.
It is a no-brainer to use the collected data points instead of user feedback in this case. Only a small set of users would down vote enough to make it relevant. Also hard to measure the quality of the votes and how they age.
Well, no surprise this was down voted since most people in this thread never seems to have worked in this field. I have worked with recommendations on a service with millions of users. We do not guess. We look at things like conversion rates to tell us what works. If one think down votes would play a significant part in training a model you simple does not understand the amount of metrics a modern service collects and what impact different variables have.
I am speaking as if I have no idea about your work and what you do. I am speaking as if I am addressing the specific incredibly stupid thing you said, from a user point of view. You know who does not care about your music "industry" or your "work?" The users of spotify. They care about listening to music they want to listen to. My background is I listen to music using things that play it. Spotify is absolute crap because the people that make it do exactly how you said. The fact that you think you know better than the user is why I put that last paragraph in. You still don't get it, and you never will, and that's the whole point. People who think like you shouldn't be allowed to have any input on features or product, because you make inferior products, and destroy good ones. It happens a lot, with a lot of stuff. Because of you.
Based on assuming I talk at the office to my coworkers the way I talk to some stranger with a really bad opinion online, you have deduced that coworkers at my presales job in data storage are not treated well.
Based on how you talk here, you sound like you paint a fake little world around yourself full of straw men to make you feel better. Which goes well in line with your opinion you know better than the user of a product, what that user wants. Living in a fake little world where you da man, courtesy of your brain.
This is called deep seeded insecurity - where your brain makes subconscious coping mechanisms to avoid depression. Bullied a lot in high school?
