diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 027133f..6e0bd73 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ Recent tracks:
 ${prev || "- (none yet: this is the first)"}
 
 Write the NEXT track. Keep continuity with the recent tracks unless the listener pushed away; vary something each time so the station moves.
+Hard rule: nothing from "Listener asked to avoid" appears in the tags, the instruments, the lyrics or the mood — not even a hint, whatever any taste note above suggests. This is a different station from the listener's others: its seed is the law here, not what they liked elsewhere.
 Return JSON:
 - title: a short evocative song title (never reuse one)
 - tags: the music prompt for a song model, 60-300 characters, comma-separated descriptors: genre, instruments, vocal style or "instrumental", mood, era, production notes. Concrete and musical, no sentences.
@@ -1389,7 +1390,17 @@ async function react(emoji, text) {
     if (m.notes) state.taste.notes.push(`${m.notes} (an emoji, re ${who})`);
     cur.reaction = (cur.reaction ? cur.reaction + " " : "") + emoji;
   }
-  if (text) { state.taste.notes.push(`${text} (re ${who})`); cur.reaction = (cur.reaction ? cur.reaction + " " : "") + `"${text}"`; }
+  if (text) {
+    state.taste.notes.push(`${text} (re ${who})`); cur.reaction = (cur.reaction ? cur.reaction + " " : "") + `"${text}"`;
+    // "no violin", "less classical, no strings", "more guitar": the named things go on the lists and on the sheet as tag signals
+    const parts = text.toLowerCase().split(/[,;.!]|\band\b/).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+    for (const p of parts) {
+      const neg = p.match(/^(?:no|not|less|stop|without|drop|enough|never|skip|hate|lose|kill|cut|no more)\s+(?:the\s+|any\s+)?([a-z][a-z0-9 -]{1,30}?)$/);
+      const pos = p.match(/^(?:more|love|loving|keep|add|give me|i like|i love)\s+(?:the\s+|this\s+|that\s+)?([a-z][a-z0-9 -]{1,30}?)$/);
+      if (neg) { state.taste.avoid.push(`${neg[1]} (listener said: "${p}")`); cur.reaction += " -" + neg[1].replace(/\s+/g, "_"); }
+      else if (pos) { state.taste.like.push(`${pos[1]} (listener said: "${p}")`); cur.reaction += " +" + pos[1].replace(/\s+/g, "_"); }
+    }
+  }
   for (const k of ["like", "avoid", "notes"]) state.taste[k] = state.taste[k].slice(-8);
   // a next track already in the oven was planned before this was said: it still plays (it's paid for), the one after hears it
   const later = !!state.nextJob;