China-based TikTok is among the most popular social media platforms in the world, with more than 1 billion users. For this reason, the popular application tries to improve the user experience by introducing new features frequently. The platform recently launched the TikTok Now application, which draws attention with its similarity to BeReal, all over the world.
TikTok, operating under the umbrella of ByteDance, announced in April that it is working on a new feature that users will love. This feature showed that the ‘dislike’ button will now be included in the application. Now, it has been announced that the feature, which has been tested for a while, is available all over the world.
How to use dislike comments feature on TikTok?
TikTok, with its statement today, shared that it will now be possible to ‘dislike’ comments on platforms. The feature, which was introduced for users to identify comments they deem irrelevant or inappropriate, can be used in the comments section of the posts. As you can see from the screenshot shared by TikTok, there is a ‘dislike’ to the right of the ‘like’ icon in the comments; there will be a ‘dislike’ button. The new feature can be used by clicking here.
The company says that when the ‘dislike’ button is pressed, the commenter will not receive a notification. It is also stated that it is not possible to see how many people dislike a comment. That is, unlike the ‘like’ button, there will be no number next to the ‘dislike’ button. In addition, it will be possible to undo your activity by clicking the same button again.
“We created this as a way to get direct feedback from our users,” TikTok said in a statement about the feature. The popular short video platform said that the feature was not developed to report comments, users still complain about hate speech, bullying, etc. He added that it should apply the same standard things to report content containing things.
With its new move, TikTok has joined the platforms with the ‘dislike’ feature. As it is known, YouTube also has a ‘dislike’ feature that allows you to show that you don’t like the videos. This platform also does not show everyone how many people dislike the content, as TikTok does now. On the other hand, Reddit also has such a button. Finally, it turned out that Twitter has been working on such a feature in the past months.
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