How to Choose Who Can Comment on Your Instagram Posts
If you have a public Instagram account, then everyone with an Instagram account can currently comment on your photos. It’s great sometimes, but as we all know, the internet can be a pretty dull place, and allowing someone to comment on your photos can sometimes (or not so rarely) mean you’ll get a bunch of offensive or offensive comments on your photos from a bunch of these. strangers.
To help combat this abuse, Instagram has (thankfully) added a new feature that lets you customize who is allowed to comment on your photos.
To limit who can comment on your images, you need to go to the Options menu in the Instagram app and then scroll down to Settings. In the settings menu, you will see a section for comments. Click on that to go to a more detailed comment menu.
You can set up your account to allow comments for everyone, or restrict access to only people you follow and your followers, people you follow, or your followers.
You can also block specific people. For example, if there is * one guy * who always leaves something nasty in your posts, you can block them in your comments. But here’s what gets interesting: they won’t know they are blocked, so they can keep leaving those crappy comments like they always do, but their comments won’t be visible to anyone but them.
This feature should go a long way towards helping you combat harassment on the platform. If you’ve ever tried to dump an internet troll when no one is responding to his comments, after a while they will just go away. If you simply block them, it often results in the trolls switching to another account in order to continue their pursuit.
The block comment feature is sort of the final move as the troll won’t be able to bother anyone, but they also won’t realize that they aren’t posting any nasty things they have to say publicly.
The new comment feature is part of Instagram’s release today, with other minor bug fixes and improvements. If you don’t see the new option to manage commentators, please update the app and it should be there.