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> Delete Reaction Comments is an Always Be Closing (ABC) feature that deletes comments from pull requests that are better expressed as GitHub reactions.

Re: Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service

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Post by drmajormccheese » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 1:29 AM UTC

aequitas wrote: post #4

This should really be a GitHub feature that is on be default on every repo: https://www.thoughtdealership.com/post/delete-comments/ > Delete Reaction Comments is an Always Be Closing (ABC) feature that deletes comments from pull requests that are better expressed as GitHub reactions.

Yeah. Recently (past half year) GitHub enabled a feature where duplicate comments are automatically edited to be hidden comments. I think it's a continuation of the GitHub feature that allows repository owners to hide a comment. Two caveats: (1) you can't hide a comment using the GitHub API; (2) I haven't tested whether duplicate comments trigger an email notification. Ideally they would not trigger notification.