In sticky comments, we hide comment threads which are children of a sticky comment to avoid derailing a conversation. However, a distinguished comment within that chain can override that (as it should). This means we need to walk up the ancestor list and de-collapse the thread that leads to this comment. We were already doing this for Q&A sort which also has special hiding rules, we just need it to now apply to all sorts.
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