Negative selection on podcasts

[bad_podcasts]

With your current features I can essentially tell the algorithm "I don't like this song, please don't play it again" there should be a feature allowing users to say "I don't listen to this podcast, please don't suggest it anymore -- and most of all, stop playing it & pushing it on my home screen" -- The fact that this feature doesn't exist feels like a transparent attempt to push podcasts on users. But if someone listen to one minute of a podcast and then never again, why would Spotify continue to push that on the user? It makes for a home screen cluttered with things i refuse to listen to, thus downgrading the UX. Thanks for considering this -- I know a lot of people are hoping for a feature like this.

[Auchindoun]

My Home page shows 19 sections. 10 of them are for podcasts. I don't listen to podcasts on Spotify. It's truly frustrating how hard they are pushing podcasts.

[MrTyrone]

I listened to 20 minutes of a podcast that I didn't enjoy at all and now every time I finish a show, that I enjoy to it automatically plays an episode of the podcast I don't enjoy. Please let me remove podcasts from my recommended... I really don't want to listen to "the red thread" and I really don't want to go into the app every time to change the podcast when it starts up after every other podcast episode I listen to. 

[mehrlicht1]

how can I tell I don't like a music?

I think there was this option when I first started using Spotify but I haven't been able to do so in the last couple of years.

I believe negative examples are just as important, if not more, as positive examples in modelling a taste recommendation system.