TikTok continues to evolve and add new features to its application to make it even more complete and attractive for its users. Last week it announced the incorporation of the ‘I don’t like’ button for comments, something that many users can already find in the app (its incorporation is progressive, so if you still don’t see it, it’s only a matter of time) . If you are interested in knowing how to dislike a TikTok comment, here is what you will have to do.
The dislike button will appear on the right side of the comments posted on each tiktok, and will be represented by a thumbs down icon as opposed to a heart, which is used to ‘like’ and make a comment visible. more visible to other users.
The addition of this button to mark when a comment is not appropriate was being tested by TikTok developers since April, although it has now been in September when it has seen the light. Of course, the option to give a ‘dislike’ to a user’s comment on the videos has several peculiarities. As in YouTube, the rest of the users will not know how many ‘dislikes’ or dislikes their comment has , but in TikTok this extends even to the creator of the comment, who will not know if their comment has been negatively valued by someone.
The new ‘dislike’ button on TikTok is not irreversible . This allows users to be able to rectify if they have pressed the dislike icon by mistake when scrolling while browsing or have ended up regretting it and do not want to negatively evaluate a comment.
What is the use of disliking or disliking a TikTok comment?
So what is the use of disliking a TikTok comment ? This tool is not so much aimed at scorning the user who has commented on something uncomfortable or inappropriate, but rather at improving TikTok . As a result of the users’ opinion, the social network will detect inappropriate or irrelevant comments, and this will allow them not to appear in the first positions as they do not add value.
As TikTok announced on its social networks, the idea with this new function within its application is “to create a better experience for our community.” In this way, it will be the users themselves who will have a moderation tool in their hands and will be able to contribute to the order in which the comments are presented in order to leave behind those who they consider to have nothing to do with the video or that they suppose some kind of gratuitous attack, trolling or spam.
It remains to be seen if TikTok has any internal way of finding out when there are campaigns organized against a user to systematically mark all their comments with ‘dislikes’ and that they do not appear in the first positions. Although harassment campaigns are usually focused on the main publications of each platform (in this case, the videos that a user uploads to TikTok ), it is not ruled out that something like this can also occur in the comments.
TikTok is the latest platform to jump on the dislike bandwagon , and this may be key to turning your comments section into a discussion forum. On YouTube it is possible to ‘dislike’ both videos and comments, although in no case does a counter appear publicly after they have been removed. Reddit also has this comment evaluation mechanism, but on this platform the negative votes that a comment has do appear, so that its users detect that a response has been controversial or inappropriate in the eyes of others.