TikTok will soon make its comment disapproval option available to users worldwide. In April, the short-form video app began testing the “dislike” button, allowing users to flag remarks that they feel are improper or irrelevant to the app’s content.
If you click the button labelled “dislike” on a comment, the comment in question will not be made public, and the comment’s author will not receive a notification that the comment has been disliked. Commenters and other users won’t be able to view the number of times a specific comment has been voted unfavourable. You can also change your mind about disliking anything by tapping the button once more.
TikTok said in a tweet that the company was testing a new way for users to report comments they thought were wrong or not relevant. “Earlier this year, we started testing this new way,” the company claimed. “After several tests, we have decided to make it available worldwide.” We made it a new way to get feedback from people in our community quickly. Because of this, we can better recognize irrelevant or improper comments, which enables us to cultivate a comment section for true and authentic conversations.
TikTok aims to improve the user experience
TikTok has said that the main reason it created this feature was to give users a better overall experience. When it first began testing the button, TikTok initially indicated that it saw the dislike button as a tool to flag comments that may be spam or that don’t make sense in the context of the video they’re posted beneath
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It was mentioned that the “dislike” button is not considered a method for reporting comments and that users should continue to follow the usual process for reporting comments for harassment, hate speech, bullying, and other similar offences.
Matt Navarra, a social media expert, discovered the hate button on TikTok for the first time in March 2020. This indicates that TikTok has been working on the feature for quite some time.
TikTok’s latest update brings it in line with a number of other digital platforms that have included their own iterations of a hate button. For example, YouTube has a “thumbs down” button that lets people tell others they don’t like what they said, but the number of dislikes isn’t shown. On the other hand, Reddit provides a button to downvote comments, but the overall tallies for upvotes and downvotes are viewable by anybody. Also, Twitter has been trying out a downvote button for replies to tweets that only a few people can use.
About TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video hosting website owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. In China, the service is known as Douyin. It has a lot of short videos made by users, ranging in length from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. These videos include pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dancing, and entertainment.
In September 2016, the original version of Douyin was released in China. TikTok is the internationalized version of that app. TikTok was initially released in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China. However, it did not become available worldwide until August 2, 2018, when it merged with another Chinese social media service called Musical.ly. TikTok was first released in most places outside of mainland China in 2017 for iOS and Android.
Users on either TikTok or Douyin have identical user interfaces, but users on either platform cannot view the content of the other. Their data centers are in the same places where people use their apps. The two items share several similarities, although their features are not the same. In-video searching for additional footage of a specific person is one of the many functions of the Douyin app.
Other capabilities include buying items, booking hotels, and writing geo-tagged reviews. TikTok and Douyin both had meteoric rises in popularity soon after they were released in 2016, which was true nearly everywhere in the world. October 2020 marked the month that TikTok reached 2 billion smartphone downloads worldwide.
