Nowadays, quite a large number of people express their feelings through social networks. Well, we have such time, what can we do? This way of expressing feelings can not only be condemned, but also seen as some advantages, for example, the absence of embarrassment. After all, not everyone is able to immediately come up and express to their eyes everything that they feel for another person. Well, it’s easier to write a message on VKontakte or put a sincere comment under a photo. Thus, we will devote this article directly to comments and how to hide or completely close comments on a photo in VK.
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.
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 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...
Bottom line
The Comments tool has been used for a long time, and it would seem that there is nothing here that is worth focusing on. But, as we see, there are some aspects of the work that require a competent approach.
We have tried to give you as much information as possible on this issue. We hope the article was useful to you.
On your personal page, comments can be turned off in two ways. The first is to close comments on each individual post. To do this, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the entry. A dialog box will appear in which you can select “turn off comments.”
This method will close comments only under a specific post where we turned off comments.
There is an option to close comments on your wall from the outside world. Moreover, you can simply close comments from those who are not friends. You can block both viewing and commenting. This is done in the settings in the “Privacy” section. Settings are located at https://vk.com/settings
For example, you can allow only friends to comment, but all users can see comments. Or you can make it so that only specific users listed in the list can comment.
Closing comments in the VKontakte community
Naturally, VKontakte communities have separate privacy settings. But in general they are similar in function. You can turn off comments for an individual post. In this case, everything is done exactly the same, only with a community record.
The second option is to set up filters. Comments containing any prohibited words will be automatically deleted immediately. This is done in the community settings. You can set to filter only obscene expressions. Or list your set of words separated by commas. The minimum word length is 2 characters.
If you wish, you can simply uncheck the box next to the phrase comments included. And there will be no comments in the community at all. With this setting, you will no longer be able to enable comments on a single post.
In general, VKontakte comments are a necessary element in promoting posts. Each comment is like a brick of activity, which allows you to increase the reach of posts and show your content higher in the feed. Therefore, it is better not to disable them, but to skillfully moderate them.
Comments are an important criterion for tracking advertising statistics for your business and user interest in content. This is the fastest way to obtain data on the productivity of the case manager. VKontakte is not only a place for those who like to have a good rest, but also a platform for actively making money and promoting your resource. They start with communities, where tracking growth through comments is the first step into the world of statistical data analysis.
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.”
Phone instructions
If you are used to using the VK mobile application, then you can set up the ability to comment here too.
To photo
As we mentioned earlier, it is not possible to set comments on individual photos. This can only be done together with all posts on the profile wall. So, how to open comments in the mobile version of VK under a photo?
- Log into your account and switch to the page with the main menu items.
- In the upper right corner, click on the gear icon to open the Settings menu.
- Select "Privacy".
- In the “Who can comment on my posts” line, check “All friends”.
In the same section, you can allow your friends access to the album with saved photos so that they can comment on them.
To the album
To allow comments on an album, go to the “Photos” section and follow these steps:
- On the desired album, click on the three dots located vertically in the upper right corner.
- Select "Edit".
- Now in the “Who can comment on this album” line, select the “All friends” setting.
- Make sure that your friends can also view this album.
To the video
In the case of video commenting settings, everything is also very simple:
- Go to the video section.
- In the list, to the right of each video, you will see three vertical dots, clicking which will bring up the menu.
- If this is a video that you personally uploaded to your page, then in this menu there will be an “Edit” item - click it.
- Here you can configure access to views and the ability to comment on videos.
In Group
Unfortunately, it is impossible to open comments in a VK group via phone.
The only thing you can create is a Comment Filter
- Go to "Management".
- Find the “Sections” item and specify a filter for comments.
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.
How to prohibit comments in a VK group
To block subscribers’ access to discussing group news on the wall, go to the “Community Management” section, then select “Comments” in the right-hand column and uncheck the “Feedback” field.
When you create an affinity group, the commenting feature is enabled by default. To limit it, you need to go to “Community Management” and select “Sections” in the settings menu. The window that appears will open parameters with which you can configure the group. In particular, you need to select the “Wall” item. There are three options:
- Open. Every user will be able to participate in discussions under posts and send messages to the group, regardless of whether he is subscribed or not. In this case, there is a high risk of “mess” and excessive amounts of spam. In particular, users will be able to publish links, text messages, pictures, audio and video recordings.
- Limited. Only people with administrator status can publish posts. However, comments remain open (it is recommended to use filters).
- Closed. Only administrators can publish posts here, and comments are not available to subscribers.
Open but controlled comments in a group have many benefits: firstly, it is a great way to maintain feedback with subscribers, so you can find out what content they prefer; secondly, obscene expression filters and keyword filters allow you to automatically filter out unwanted messages. At the same time, the community administrator can regularly access the transaction history, where all deleted comments are displayed. He can view them and, if necessary, restore them so that other users can see them under the entries.
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.
How to disable comments in the VK community
Not in all cases comments are necessary for the public. If you want to disable them, then follow these steps:
- Go to "Community Management".
- On the right, select Sections.
- Find "Wall" and select "Closed" from the pop-up menu.
Thus, the ability to comment on posts will be disabled.
So, let's highlight the main points in working with comments:
- This is a great way to get feedback from your audience.
- Use filters (preferably both).
- The better you set up the keyword filter, the more unnecessary messages you can filter out.
- Check your transaction history periodically. People don't know what words you entered into the filter and may use them. And sometimes normal messages are deleted.
- Keep track of the latest comments via news.
Correct work with comments is a breakthrough in the development of the VK group
Only after entering the ladder of the group’s career advancement does a person monitor every “rustle” on his community wall. But as the group develops and the audience increases, it is extremely difficult to manually maintain a report, and it is physically impossible to view each post several times a day. Without paying attention to this issue, the project gradually loses its speed of promotion and acquires negative features.
Commenting on a post is an easy way to ask the administrator a question. The faster the user solves his problem, the more satisfied he will be and will begin to suggest your content to his friends.
How to disable comments in a VK group
The lack of opportunity to express your opinion avoids disputes between participants. This is cost-effective if the community content is not commercial, but informational:
- the topic of the group does not imply answers to user questions;
- is for entertainment purposes only;
- does not require active discussion.
From computer
The only way to turn off comments in a VK group is to close the wall.
With Android OS
You also need to disable the news wall.
