How To Avoid Those Annoying Bot Comments On Instagram (Patreon)

This post is a little bit random but I wanted to share how I avoid getting those pesky spam comments from bots on Instagram for those of you who don't know how to do so already. 

It's always annoying when you post something and see a new comment pop up just to realise it's not a real comment at all but a bot, but since most of them have the same comments I avoid 99% of them these days by blocking certain words or phrases.

A lot of the bot comments use phrases like 'DM it' or 'promote it' so by blocking those phrases from your comments you can get rid of a lot of them, and they're not phrases that your normal audience will often be using so it's not likely to stop any genuine people from commenting.

So here's how to block words from your comments on Instagram (hopefully your settings look the same as mine!):1. From your profile page, click on the menu in the top right with the three horizontal lines

2. Select 'privacy' from the list

3. Then select 'hidden words'

4. Enable 'hide comments' and then click into 'manage list'

5. Here you can add any words, phrases or emojis that you want to hide from the comments of your posts. I've chosen to hide 'DM it' and 'promote it'.

You might still get the occasional bot comment that uses a different phrase to these, but you can change the list at any time and I personally just delete bot comments when I get them because it's so infrequent.

Hope that helps you Instagrammers out there!❤