There are not a few social networks that are reluctant to place a button that allows users’ comments to be given a negative rating, and among them both Facebook and Twitter are found, but this is not limited to the rest of the industry. Nevertheless, now TikTok leaves this group to provide this option to its users.
TikTok today announced that users will be able to downvote other users’ comments., a vote that may be reversible, as might be expected, since by having a dedicated icon we can give it by accident. In the same way that it happens in other occasionsnegative votes will not be visible, which means that they are probably used as an internal moderation tool.
As before, users will be able to continue reporting comments that violate the community rules, but downvotes can work towards giving them less visibility without being directly a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the community.
In any case, it is one more tool with which users can express their opinion on a specific comment, although it will not work like on Reddit, where users can see the popularity of a particular commentand consequently, the popularity of a particular user.
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Jordi Bercial
Avid technology and electronics enthusiast. I’ve been messing around with computer components almost since I could walk. I started working at Geeknetic after winning a contest on their forum about writing hardware articles. Drift, mechanics and photography lover. Feel free to leave a comment on my articles if you have any questions.
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