# Reactions Question
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** reactions
**Created:** [May 29, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996 "2025-05-29T00:25:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@fuse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fuse)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/1 "2025-05-29T00:25:02Z")
While I don’t change reactions on my site a ton, I do change them from time to time.
My users are reporting the 👋 reaction seems to auto convert to ❤
I was able to reproduce the issue.
I tried changing the order of the reaction, same result.
I’ve removed the wave reaction, at least temporarily.
Not a huge deal, just mostly curious if I’ve changed configurations in a way that would cause this outcome.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/2 "2025-05-29T04:31:04Z")
Is the goal here to remove ❤ ? or are you simply trying to add a reaction.
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### Author:  [@fuse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fuse)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/3 "2025-05-29T10:52:04Z")
Sorry if it wasn’t clear.
I have 8 reactions, of which hand wave was one.
When users selected hand wave, it appeared briefly (enough to be seen and not enough time really to screenshot) before the wave changes automatically to a heart.
My plane today was to re-add hand wave after having it not as a reaction and see if it made any difference.
My suspicion is that either due to addition, removal, and shuffling of reaction positions over time that (for whatever reason) wave is not recognized and so is being substituted as a heart.
Wish I had more useful information to offer.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/4 "2025-05-29T11:24:51Z")
Is it possible that you have the hand wave reaction set on the `Discourse reactions reaction for like` site setting?
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### Author:  [@fuse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fuse)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/5 "2025-05-29T14:17:27Z")
Great thought.
I checked and
Discourse reactions like icon is set to heart, as is
Discourse reactions reaction for like
I do see Discourse reactions like sync enabled is unchecked, to the best of my knowledge that is the way it has always been set.
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### Author:  [@fuse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fuse)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/6 "2025-05-30T17:13:26Z")
And after removing wave for a day, and adding it back as a reaction, it works 😁
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/7 "2025-05-30T17:28:05Z")
Just a thought: Some time ago `:wave:` was changed to `:waving_hand:`. While both still work in posts 👋 👋 both work, the official name used in autocomplete now seems to be `:waving_hand:`.
I wonder if your deleting and re-adding caused the configuration to be `waving_hand` now while it was `wave` before and if the latter caused the problem.
You could check the old configuration in the staff action logs: `admin/logs/staff_action_logs?filters=%7B"subject"%3A"discourse_reactions_enabled_reactions"%7D`
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### Author:  [@fuse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fuse)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/8 "2025-05-30T20:29:12Z")
Great idea, thank you!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reactions-question/367996/9 "2025-06-03T06:19:10Z")