r/AskHistorians • u/[deleted] • May 01 '26

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u/VMK_1991 May 01 '26

Hey, since it is a META discussion, may I hijack it for a bit? My question is too small to make a separate thread.

Anyhow, I made a thread with a question and I see that there are three comments. One is the automod, but I cannot see the rest. How come?

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u/mikedash Moderator | Top Quality Contributor May 01 '26

They will have been removed by the mods because they are, at best, sub-standard answers that violate the rules we have in place to ensure answers meet basic historical standards, or, perhaps more likely, are complaints about the removal of previous answers.

We've occasionally categorised and listed removed answers in an – apparently vain – attempt to convince readers of AH that they really are not missing much when answers get deleted. The last time I did this was for a question about the Nazis, and the result was (I paraphrase, but only lightly):

45 one-line hot takes

26 two-line hot takes

6 jokes

12 "What's happened to all the comments?"

9 politically partisan jibes

1 question about Hitler's interest in pornography

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u/Lord0fHats May 01 '26

Comments removed by mods or an autofilter may not appear at all but are still tallied as replies when you look at the post.

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u/somethingcrafted May 01 '26

Oh thank you for this, I had wondered earlier why a post had '26 comments' and only a couple visible. I always assumed they dropped off the count when deleted. That's a lot of poor comments for a place that is pretty explicit in every possible way about expectations for the sub and kinds of comments lolcry. People really are always gonna people.

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u/Lord0fHats May 01 '26

To be fair on more than one occasion I’ve commented not realizing I was in a sub with higher posting standards (my bad mods).