Comments on the VKontakte social network, although they are one of the important functions that allow users to openly communicate with each other in communities and in some other places, can sometimes be inappropriate. In this regard, the developers of this resource have added settings that allow you to limit or completely disable the ability to comment. In the course of today's article, we will take a detailed look at the procedure for deactivating comments using the example of a personal page and a community.
What are comments and what are they for?
In this section, we will briefly look at what comments are and why they are actually needed, and we will also explore how you can close comments on a photo on VK. Comments can be understood as various inscriptions, pictures, emoticons and even photographs that are left by visitors to your page in order to express their feelings and emotions. Comments can be placed both under photos and under various posts. When talking about commenting, it is worth understanding that a page visitor can express an opinion not only directly about your person, but also leave an opinion under various advertising posts that you reposted to the wall. Thus, a negative opinion expressed by someone from experienced users about a service or product that they tried before you and did not agree with the quality can benefit you. But most often the comments still reflect the feelings and emotions experienced towards the owner of the account.
New rules - Attention
Since 2021, very important changes have occurred in the YouTube rules. They relate to children's content (about children and for children):
- at the time of uploading the video, the author must indicate its topic;
- all videos with this topic are automatically disabled from comments ⇐⇐⇐
- if the channel is entirely dedicated to children, comments are disabled for the entire channel !!!!
This was done, firstly, in order to protect little bloggers from the negativity and obscenity that some commentators allow themselves. Secondly, such measures are aimed at complying with the COPPA child safety law.
In addition to comments, these measures also affected other options for children's channels:
- automatic playback on the main page of the channel;
- sponsorships and donations;
- likes/dislikes for children's videos on YouTube Music;
- sale of goods with your own symbols;
- super chat, chat and donations in chat;
- setting up advertising targeting;
- playback in reduced mode;
- channel notifications;
- the ability to make short notes and stories.
Of course, this situation directly affected income. And some channels were completely cut off from monetization.
On the channel:
The first thing you need to know is that comments are enabled both for the entire channel and for each individual video. You can do this at your own discretion, for example, if some topics have caused too active discussion and mutual insults among users.
How to see comments
When your photo albums on VKontakte are overflowing with numerous photos, pictures and drawings, it becomes quite difficult to keep track of every comment. Do not review all photo archives in order to see the latest comments and monitor them in a timely manner. Of course, when new comments are received from their subscribers and friends, the user receives corresponding comments. But even in this way, it is not always possible to notice newly received comments. If you do not receive notifications, you need to see how to enable comments on photos in VK and take the necessary actions.
If you don’t visit VKontakte very often, the situation will drag out even more. As a result, your acquaintances and friends will wait a long time for you to deign to respond to their comments on the photo on VK. And you will remain in mysterious ignorance that any wishes exist at all.
Let's talk a little about how you need to look at the comments received on the photo. First of all, you need to go to your page and open the photos and then visit the “comments” option. This way you will be able to see everything that visitors to your page “told you” about.
But with all this advantage of the VKontakte system, it may happen that the comments to your photo contain far from unpleasant moments that you would like to see and know, and even more so would like for your loved ones to see and know. If you notice negative comments on your page, you have the opportunity to close comments on photos in VK. What we will talk about next...
How to disable commenting on Facebook via restricted access
The social network Facebook provides an option that allows you to limit access to your materials to certain people. The function is useful if a person does not want to share his photo and news with a certain person or group of users. To do this, you can place a person on restricted access without informing the person being added about it.
This method allows you to solve the following problems: disable viewing comments and block access to some materials. People on your list won't see posts that are only shared with friends. Such individuals will only see content that is publicly visible and where it has been tagged.
To add a user to such a list, follow these steps:
- log in to the account of the desired person;
- at the top of the page select the Friends section;
- in the drop-down list, find the Add to another list item;
- Click on the line Restricted access.
In the future, you can delete an account from the list at any time through the List Management menu and after going to the editing section.
Who sees comments on my photos?
It is important to understand that the comments left will be seen by every visitor to the page if you do not take care of privacy in advance.
VK users who post their own photos very often do not even suspect that it is possible to disable or even hide comments on pictures. This is especially important to do when unflattering messages and reviews are attached to photographs or posts on the wall.
In order to hide unpleasant comments or reserve the opportunity to comment directly for friends, you will need to go to the album and select from the list of albums exactly the one that you want to limit in comments. You have the option to edit the album. Here you can select who will be able to view this album (for example, all users), as well as those who will be able to comment on photos in a particular album. For example, by selecting “Only friends”, only those visitors to your page who are confirmed as your friends will be able to comment. If you don't want your photos to be commented at all, select "Only Me." This way, no one except you will be able to leave comments. Now you know how to disable comments on photos in VK.
Sort photos by albums
It is highly recommended that you upload each photo to albums. Because the ability to separate rights to view and comment on pictures uploaded separately from photo albums is not available.
As for other entries, say, that you put on the wall, to refuse to comment on them, the privacy settings must be changed in the “Privacy” section. Go to “My Settings” and click on the “Privacy” tab. Go to the subsection “Who can comment on my posts?” and select one of the generated items, for example, “Friends only.”
What methods of comment control are there?
For community administrators on the VKontakte social network, comments are one of the main tools for maintaining feedback with the audience, which, moreover, can serve as an excellent tool for directing and improving the development vector of published content. However, there is often a need to limit the access of discussions under posts in a group. There are several configuration options here. The standard function allows you to enable or disable commenting on posts. When creating a group, this feature will be enabled by default. There are several filters in the comments section:
- An obscene expression filter, with the help of which user comments containing obscene expressions and insults to other subscribers will be deleted automatically.
- A keyword filter that will remove comments based on pre-specified queries.
It is worth noting that all automatically deleted messages will be displayed in the “Operation History” section, where the administrator will be able to view each previously deleted comment at any time.
How to delete comments on a photo on VK
If you decide not to bother with privacy settings and don’t think about closing comments to photos on VK, you can completely delete comments that you don’t like. Deleting a comment completely is as easy as deleting a careless VKontakte message. To do this, you need to find the comment and click on the “delete” icon.
If you want to delete a comment on someone else's photo, then this is only possible for yourself. That is, if you click on the cross, you will hide the comment only for yourself. If you indicate a violation, the comment will be deleted by moderators or, depending on the number of complaints, it will disappear automatically, and the page of the person who left it will be temporarily frozen.
Manipulations with comments in VKontakte groups
Basic operations:
There is no need to enable this feature - this feature is enabled by default. But convenient viewing of them requires proper configuration.
From computer
To monitor updates to your project, you need to perform several steps:
Only community notifications are displayed here.
With Android OS
Once set up, you'll be able to see the group's selected notifications in your News Feed.
Privacy settings to hide comments and avatar
In this section, we will take a broader look at the privacy settings for VK comments and learn how to disable comments on a VKontakte avatar.
Privacy settings control access to your page, using which you can block or allow other users to view information on your account. The developers of the VKontakte website took a very careful approach to working out all the nuances related to privacy, since these functions have a very close connection with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, for example, with secret correspondence.
Privacy settings make it possible to hide comments on a photo or other posts from others. In other words, absolutely every user has the right and opportunity to completely block access to a personal page for unverified users and, in addition, even friends. If you want to cancel the ability to comment on an avatar photo, please note that this can only be done together with all comments, also through the privacy settings.
How do privacy settings work?
All users of the VKontakte public network are divided into specific groups, divided into friends, subscribers and others. This was done to differentiate access between all categories. When registering a new account, access to the page is open to all visitors, but by going to the privacy options it is quite possible to set access rights to certain sections for any specific group or in order to add a specific person to the “Black List”. In this article, you learned how to hide comments on photos on VK or delete them altogether.
After all privacy options have been set, each person visiting your page goes through a special filter. Determining his category of users and inviting him to view the page.
But what if you are interested in a person whose access to his page is blocked? In this case, all you have to do is accept it, because viewing protected pages is unlikely. When the social network was just beginning to develop, its code had a large number of holes through which it was quite possible to bypass privacy protection without any difficulty. However, as VKontakte’s reputation grew, the company’s software developers brought the security system to almost perfection.
Personal data protection is being improved
There is practically no way to gain access to protected information, since all user information is stored on the company’s secure servers. Similarly, to replace the prohibition of access to certain categories of users, a more reliable protection system has come, which provides for allowing access to a specific person. This is the main reason why, including advanced users and almost all hackers. Specialized software that allows you to view hidden pages can no longer bypass robust privacy protection.
Enable comments under videos
You can activate or disable the commenting function for videos only if they are uploaded by the user himself. For videos added from other people's publications, you cannot set the parameter.
To open comments for your videos, you need to go to the appropriate section, hover over the video, and click the pencil icon. In the pop-up window, you should find the line “Who can comment on this video?” and set the desired value. Then click “Save Changes”.
The presented recommendations will help open comments on photos, publications and videos for friends and other users of the social network.
If you are interested in the question of how to open comments in VK, then in this article we will answer it in detail. It often happens that a person limits the ability to comment on his posts and albums in order to maintain the privacy of his account, and then forgets how to open this opportunity again. Comments should be open if you actively interact with your friends and followers and provide feedback to them.
