Gitea: Hide old Reactions wich are no longer Allowed

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This issue colect options of the gitea communety about title topic

[guillep2k]

IMHO the only reason to remove a reaction type is because it's causing problems. So, the reaction itself should disappear from the history if that's the case. Having said that, I don't like that idea; I'd rather let the admin have some moderating tools to manage that, but we don't want Gitea to become a social network (and it's a lot of work to do that properly), so... Tough choice.

[jolheiser]

I think if possible it'd be better to leave the DB intact and just not display it.
Then, if an admin decides to revert it later (or it was a mistake in the first place) they will display again.

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I created an poll: :D

EDIT: poll freezed after 9days ... stats:

[6543]

My opinion is: still let old reaction untoched but only allow deletion if not alowed one ...
If a reaction is realy so harmfull a DELETE FROM reaction WHERE Type like "harmefull" can solve that problem ...

[6543]

@go-gitea/maintainers poll your option if you have not ... and then wee will see :)

[6543]

The poll is clear about this ... I'll send a PR

EDIT: not now ... still ongoing discusion

[lunny]

We should have a more accurate meaning about the config.

; All available reactions. Allow users react with different emoji's
: For the whole list look at https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea.com/issues/8
REACTIONS = +1, -1, laugh, hooray, confused, heart, rocket, eyes

There are two meaning about REACTIONS. One is what reactions you will see, another is what reactions you can use. Most of the time they are the same. But when you change it serval times, it will not.

Or maybe we should have two options here. :)

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@lunny about secound setting option:

• think this will be rare used
• can iretate ...

[6543]

PR is here: #9387