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TikTok users will now be able to dislike comments to make people feel more in control over what they see, the company says that this experiment is enforcing community guidelines. TikTok has not provided any details about how the feature is going to be working or what it could look like in the future. Although some users who are part of the tests shared screenshots on Twitter of a thumbs down button appearing next to the heart, and videos comment sections.
TikTok also makes it very clear that individual users will have no way of knowing if the comment they have made has been this late, so it seems like the dislike counts will not be viewable in the same way that likes are. [The screenshots shared by users who are part of these tests did not show any number next to the thumbs down icon] The company says that they started testing this way for letting individuals identify comments that are irrelevant or inappropriate, and the community feedback was also going to be adding to the range of factors they already used to keep the comment section relevant and a place for engagement. In TikTok’s case. It seems like these dislikes will be very much more limited than how YouTube normally uses them, at least for now.
