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GitHub Docs: Participating in a discussion

Documents creating discussions, comments in response to the original discussion, threaded comment replies to individual comments, emoji reactions, upvoting discussions and top-level comments, marking comments or threaded comments as answers, and unmarking answers.

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Threaded discussion Choose threaded discussion when the core unit is a topic or parent message with replies that need branch context and participation state. Starting a reply records the exact parent topic or parent reply being answered and shows that target while composing. GitHub Discussions supports original-topic comments, threaded replies to individual comments, reactions, upvotes, discussion creation, answer marking, threaded-comment answer marking, and unmarking answers.

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