Instagram will also let users decide to switch off comments on their accounts on a post-by-post basis.
Please note that from 2pm today, all comments will be switched off Comment is free, while we undergo technical work.
Indicative of this, last year he reset one of the most fundamental YouTube conventions by switching off comments on his videos.
"Switching off comments is the social media equivalent of playing behind closed doors," said Wright.
Switch off the commentators.
Roughly two people noticed its absence, until the other day when a paragraph in Private Eye claimed I'd asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, to switch off the reader comments underneath my articles (not true), and that he'd refused to do so (also not true), so I'd quit (not entirely true).
The same bug would've let the ne'er-do-well quietly switch off a video's comments, leaving the uploader wondering why the heck things suddenly went silent.
Top 100 YouTube gamers were watched 4.4bn times in September YouTube: PewDiePie, DC Toys Collector and Katy Perry top in 2014 PewDiePie switches off YouTube comments: 'It's mainly spam'.
Moderation is already a controversial subject for YouTube, with PewDiePie famously switching off the comments on his channel in September 2014, complaining that "it's mainly spam, it's people self-advertising, it's people trying to provoke".
An online petition, signed by 250,000 people demanded that the system be returned to its original format, and many popular YouTubers, including PewDiePie, switched off their comments sections in protest.
