Hidden Items shouldn't hide comments with reactions

[carlin-q-scott]

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I was looking at a rather long issue discussion and I noticed people quoting a workaround for the issue but I didn't see the original workaround in the comments. I then noticed that there were "84 hidden items" in the middle of the discussion. I had to click that button twice to find the workaround comment which has plenty of reactions to it. I think comments with reactions shouldn't be hidden because they're probably helpful for people not engaged in the discussion to see and they won't know that it's there unless someone quoted the comment in its entirety. In this case, two people had done that, but I doubt that will always be the case.

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https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/138600#discussion-7180406

@carlin-q-scott, I disagree - consider a comment which has been downvoted significantly, and then hidden as off-topic.

[carlin-q-scott]

Why not delete/report such comments? Or if those significantly downvoted comments are more common than helpful comments, then filter for the negative reactions.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Why not delete/report such comments?

@carlin-q-scott, because the hide feature serves that purpose whilst retaining context. Irrespective, an example in which a comment has been downvoted and hidden as resolved is more fitting - I should have provided that as an example.

then filter for the negative reactions

Do you mean that the viewer should manually filter all comments with negative reactions? If so, that might provide a view potentially lacking context. To my knowledge, that is exactly what your suggestions intends to remediate.