Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments (bbc.co.uk)

Instagram has had enough of questionable, offensive comments. The company announced Friday that it will soon give users the ability to make the choice about what's acceptable and what's not, reports BBC. From an article: The first will let people hide certain words, phrases or emoji icons from their feed. The second will go further in allowing users to block comments entirely, on a post by post basis. Verified accounts will be able use these new tools first before they are rolled out to everyone, Newsbeat has learned. Accounts which get lots of comments will get access in the next couple of weeks.

Comments

For example

[dgatwood]

Blocklist: Trump, Hilary, Clinton, DNC, RNC, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, gun control, s**t, f**k, h**l, ...

Actual posts filtered:

• Google Trumps Apple as #1 on NASDAQ
• California Drought Finally Over? Green Grass Says "Maybe"
• Shitake Mushrooms Pulled Over E. Coli Concerns
• Hello. My Name is...

Word bans don't work. They never did. To do this right would involve significant amounts of machine learning, and you wouldn't need a list of things to ban if they were doing that.

Re:For example

[Anonymous Coward]

yea, and f#ck you. H!lary Cl!nton and Trurnp both suck sh!t. :/

Re:For example

[Anonymous Coward]

Blocklist: Trump, Trump, Trump, TNC, TNC, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, trump control, tr**p, t**p, t**mp, ...

Actual posts filtered:

Trump Trumps Trump as #1 on TRUMPDAQ
Trump Drought Finally Over? Trump Grass Says "Trump"
Shitrump Mushrooms Pulled Over T. Trump Concerns
Trump. Trump Trump is...

Trump bans don't work. Trump never did. To do this right would involve significant amounts of trump learning, and you wouldn't need a list of things to trump if trump were doing that.

[FYI shiitake is spelled with 2 i's. You wouldn't need a list of things to ban if the world didn't have its head up its ass and would learn this.]

Re:For example

[Anonymous Coward]

Blocklist: Trump, Hilary , Clinton, DNC, RNC, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, gun control, s**t, f**k, h**l, ...

Actual posts filtered:

• Google Trumps Apple as #1 on NASDAQ
• California Drought Finally Over? Green Grass Says "Maybe"
• Shitake Mushrooms Pulled Over E. Coli Concerns
• Hello. My Name is...

Word bans don't work. They never did. To do this right would involve significant amounts of machine learning, and you wouldn't need a list of things to ban if they were doing that.

especially when you don't spell the words correctly...

Re:For example

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I suggest filtering the words "a" and "the"; that should get of a major portion of useless posts on Instagram.

Re:For example

[dgatwood]

Oh, that's right, she uses two Ls. My bad.

Unleash your inner censor!

[Anonymous Coward]

This internet thing isn't working out.

had enough news about twitter or instagram

[Anonymous Coward]

C'mon people. You are not your smartphones nor khakis. Give us news for nerds dammit.

First Post Again!

[Anonymous Coward]

At least it would have been if Instagram didn't filter my comment.

Crickets and tumbleweeds

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how vacant it would be if I filtered out all posts containing emoticons.

It would probably have a tangential result of silencing women and children.

amazing!

[Anonymous Coward]

I totally was never able to do this in the 1980's with usenet killfiles. This is an amazing new development.

Questional Words

[LittleBigScript]

Will BBC be acceptable, but not talking about BBC?

Spelling checker

[Anonymous Coward]

They should enable a spelling checker and don't allow any posts with typos.

South Park s19e05, "Safe Space"

[FilatovEV]

That idea was explored there.

emoji?

[Anonymous Coward]

every emoji?