Okay I'm sorry for the overly harsh tone of that note. It *was* bourne out of frustration at a no-reply to a groups.google.com posting and to a completely...
... Seems true. This is something that definitely needs fixing. As you're encouraged to rate -- and that's the natural inclination as well, as you wrote --...
Todd, Can you expand on your excellent July 22 response on "How to rate"? Specifically: First, please clarify your artist/album rating comment: "The nice...
I completely agree with you, Renne. This is something that needs fixing. As Launch has told us, if you rate more songs, your station will improve. This is...
Todd et al Just a quick thanks for whatever happened to let Cold Chisel play on my station. Slowly the amount of aussie music on Launch is climbing up there. ...
... as ... station. ... picking ... knowing some ... Renne, For 99%+ of users, rating more does improve their station, and the issue of running out of music...
... Not sure what exactly you are asking, but when you rate songs by an artist, but not the artist or album, the system uses a weighted average of your song...
... certain ... that ... Todd did not direct this question to me but I've been thinking about it, so I'll try to answer. I appreciate the opportunity this...
... Firstly, Yahoo! needs to make a business decision as to how to relate to the 1%- of listeners. Will Yahoo! view the 1%-'ers the avid evangelists of...
... playback ... inclination ... certain ... that ... a user with 5,000+ or 10,000+ should not hear 50% rated songs.. this number should increase to 80% for...
I have the impression that post-June, I've listened to some stations by gaming-the-system members, folks with >>10k songs rated. And it was completely...
Todd, if it were possible, I would lower the percentage of unrated songs that must play, for DJs whose number of rated songs passes a certain threshold (10000...
Shhh, Greg--don't awaken the lawyers! I agree, artist fan stations can really turn out some great mixes of music. They're a perfect example of LC's awesome ...
... What I would do is cannibalize the users ratings of song/artist/album, starting from the '0'-end of the scale. Implicitly unrate them and add them to the...
... Ok, you guys seem to get the "no on-demand" constraints. I think we have some good rules in the system that prevent those conditions already, and I don't...
Todd Four times today a song has started and then the screen has popped up with the ...Are you still there???? crap. I don't mind this page coming up but for...
Does your customized LAUNCHcast station refuse to play any rated songs? I'm not talking about a small a percentage of rated songs... I mean ZERO rated songs?...
... ratings ... should ... Preferring a 70-30 mix rated to unrated is hardly wanting full control. ... You used to. Before the recent change, most of the music...
... certain ... Well, I would first try to make the music quota that has to be outside of the listener's control as good (as pleasant for the listener) as...
Hi everyone, I don't believe the lie that says that we users are trying to get too much control over what we hear on LAUNCH. That's just not true. LAUNCH has...
... Show of hands: how many of us 1%'ers, us gaming-the-system blokes, us complainers, are actually paying customers? I paid for THREE. -- "We trust, sir,...
... Amen to all of the above. The powers that be at Launch must believe we have short term memory loss. As recently as mid-June, most of us had user stations...
Yahoo's Customer Service in general sucks.. LAUNCHcast is always making changes, and blaming the people who rate a lot of songs, saying they are trying to...
... me, ... Completely agree. I've had it; this is not what I paid for. It stinks, and I'm done with LC+. Also, I've been posting on this group on a regular...
Let's face it, most companies "bend the truth" in some way or another. They need to know the effects of their decisions and attitudes--that's why we write. ...
Todd, to clarify my suggestion--I did NOT suggest that you offer "complete control" to any users. What I and others have suggested is that (though I know it...
The funny thing about the whole algorithm change for me is in the 2-star songs. When the algorithm change hit me, I had no idea what was going on-- I assumed...
... us ... Me... I'm a paying customer... just riding out the changes for now. Getting used to the previously-encouraged behavior (i.e., rate a lot, becaome a...
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