Add 🫡 (saluting face) to the comment reaction options

[partylikeits1983]

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GitHub currently supports eight reactions on comments, issues, PRs, and discussions: 👍 👎 😄 🎉 😕 ❤️ 🚀 👀.

I'd like to request adding the saluting face emoji (🫡) to this set.

Why it would be useful:

• It's a quick, friendly way to acknowledge a request, instruction, or hand-off — "got it, on it" — without writing a full reply. This comes up constantly in code review and issue triage.

• It expresses respect or appreciation for someone's work in a way the existing reactions don't quite capture (👍 reads as plain approval, 🎉 as celebration, ❤️ as affection).

• 🫡 is a widely supported Unicode emoji (Emoji 14.0) and is already common across Slack, Discord, and other developer tools, so it would feel familiar.

Proposed behavior:

Add 🫡 as a ninth reaction option in the existing reaction picker, with no other changes to how reactions work.

Thanks for considering it!

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