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Ok really baffling thing happened on Spotify. Last week I shared a collaborative playlist with a specific theme. Somehow this playlist got targeted by a bunch of users who are self publishing music to Spotify (verified artist types) who went and added their own random music...Permalink On twitter.com
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Here's what this looked like with some example artists. None of these artists sounded related, so a bunch of unconnected artists apparently all found my shared playlist and swarmed it in the hope that they'd get additional plays where listeners wouldn't notice the genre shift?Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a Twee playlist and the artists who invaded were: Spanish Electronic, Alt Rock, Trap, Rap, and EDM. Clearly a drive by of my playlist made only more baffling b/c apparently you can only see who added tracks to your playlist on the Spotify mobile app, but not desktop.On twitter.com
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I shared the playlist on Twitter & since Spotify has no moderation tools (like limiting collaborators to my friends) I knew there was a risk of random pop-ins, but this behavior is really weird. It feels like my playlist was posted up somewhere where rando artists got to it laterPermalink On twitter.com
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I'm also really unclear on what they (these random artists) wanted as an outcome for this? Is potentially 9 extra listens per song (the number of likes on that playlist) enough of a reason to go around playlist bombing me?Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, this seems like it would be *work* to do in any organized way? Like... what is the ROI on hunting down collaborative playlists and adding a bunch of your songs to them in the hope you don't get caught and people give you listens? How often does it even work?Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a good time to note that Spotify has really been going *backwards* on collaborative playlists. You can only see who added to a playlist on mobile app, I can't see datestamps on when a track was added anymore. This is really annoying...Permalink On twitter.com
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W/o some sort of controls over who can make changes to a playlist and what kind of changes they can make, or at least the capacity to revert those changes, it makes me worried about making a playlist collab. What if someone drops in and starts pulling tracks out of the playlist?Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, only somewhat related, but feels like a general trend in a bad direction when sometime this/last month Spotify changed language around playlist sharing. It used to be that playlists could be Public or Private but now they are only "Add to profile" & "Remove from profile".Permalink On twitter.com
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I just find this whole thing very confusing because... where did they find my Collaborative playlist in the first place? Are people searching Twitter for playlists to try and bomb? Is there a unique URL pattern that makes them easier to find so that this is more likely to happen?Permalink On twitter.com
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All of those features used to be available on desktop and mobile, along with an idea of who liked your playlist and who collaborated on your playlist. Mby I'm crazy but I thought there used to be some sort of history of stuff pulled on and off as well?Permalink On twitter.com
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Ok... I dunno what I did, but literally as I was writing this thread the Added By column came back in the desktop app. Very weird.Permalink On twitter.com
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I wonder if it's sharing on Twitter that does it? Ok, playlist backed up. If you want to add some Twee music to my playlist, please do! And I'm going to see if sharing it again causes another playlist bombing event. open.spotify.com/playlist/1rtVxziMPzf6PySLyM85go?si=3382ab8c302f4e1fPermalink On twitter.com
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Anyway, I'm checking through my other open collab playlists on Spotify and none of them seem to have gotten bombed in the same way, though they are older so I'm better it *has* to do with sharing it on Twitter or the change Spotify recently made around playlist "privacy".Permalink On twitter.com
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*I'm bettingPermalink On twitter.com
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Ok, whatever is happening it is definitely being triggered by sharing the link on Twitter, because that specific playlist got bombed again. I tried to report the user, but SpotifyUSA SpotifyCares doesn't have an option to report bot-like behavior / playlist spam.Permalink On twitter.com
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Ok it happened again, with the same users, and I didn't even share the list this time. SpotifyCares let me block users or artists who spam playlists please? Otherwise I'm basically blocked from using collaborative playlists as a feature.Permalink On twitter.com
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