Is about three new features– Limit comments and requests to send direct messages in times of high attention, appearance of warnings when publishing offensive content and the implementation of a new feature called Hidden Words, to filter abusive private message requests.
New measures with abuse and offensive content
With these new measures, Instagram hopes protect your users from abusive situations and even avoid that many people suffer this for the first time, since for them the well-being of their users is very important.
The function of limiting comments will serve to make no comments or direct message requests appear of people we do not follow or who have followed us recently.
This it happens mostly with influencers or world famous people that depending on what they do they see as their last publication full of new comments even if it has been uploaded days ago. This accumulation of comments can happen for both good and bad things.
For instance, in the last Eurocup We watched as players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missed decisive penalties that caused England to lose the tournament. This caused the Instagram profiles of these three players to be filled with hateful and racist comments.
Therefore, this new function will help you avoid these unpleasant situations. The function will allow you without problems to continue maintaining contact with our community of followers, but can limit these users who only seek to create hatred.
The function is already available and it can be activated or deactivated from the settings tab. If you have it deactivated and you suffer a high number of comments or direct messages, the application itself will recommend that you activate the function if you wish.
Instagram it already showed a warning if you posted an offensive comment, stating that you were violating their community guidelines. Before this notice occurred to the second or third comment, but now it will be done from the first.
These warnings can cause these users who want to post offensive content edit the comment or directly or publish it.
Hidden Words functionality will allow users to choose certain words, emoticons or phrases that they do not want to see. What’s more, will also filter direct messages that are spam or poor quality.
This feature is only available right now in some countries but is expected to end of august already be available worldwide.
So, let’s hope that with these new measures Instagram is an even safer social network and in which offensive or hateful episodes are stopped due to some comments.