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Instagram to introduce option to filter irksome comments

While it's just a minor update, it will help users to eliminate boisterous comments on a post by post basis.

In a move to combat online harassment on instant photo-sharing app Instagram, the company will now roll out ‘high volume comment threads’ which will allow users to either filter abusive comments or completely turn off the comments section altogether.

While it’s just a minor update, it will help users to eliminate boisterous comments on a post by post basis, helping curb the use of abusive comments.

Nicky Jackson Colaco, Instagram’s head of public policy, in a statement to the Washington Post said that the company’s goal is to make Instagram friendlier and safer for users to express themselves.

She also said that the company has already started rolling out accounts with high volume comment threads option, giving them an option to moderate comments.

While the company has some existing guidelines on what it considers acceptable, the new option will give users the power to decide whether a comment is good enough to be posted or not.

The decision has been taken by the company a month after it launched ‘comment moderation’ tool for business accounts that allows users to block offensive comments.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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