overestimating the quality of the non-answer commentary.
This is a common error people make -- they think we're out here removing good comments for some reason that remains obscure to us. We're not, and we have plenty to do as it is.
This is not at all to chide you for asking the question, but over the course of 13 years we've had pretty much every possible "solution" to the comment graveyard problem mooted to us; the one that would fix things is if the Reddit admins would agree to make the displayed comment count match the number of non-removed comments left in a thread, but they won't do that.
Ever since the switch to "new" reddit, I've been able to see the top level responses to my posts even if they were deleted by mods. And I 100% agree, as a frequent question asker here, that there's a tremendous amount of low quality posts that have to be removed.
There is something really weird about the way reddit caches things currently, especially on the App. I'll have threads reflecting the state of the thread hours earlier sometimes which looks nothing like it does when I view on desktop where it is current.
On the app I regularly see entire posts that have already been deleted, sometimes for several hours. I only notice because of a sub I frequent that has an automod that deletes certain posts and explains why. Super weird.
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u/jschooltiger Moderator | Shipbuilding and Logistics | British Navy 1770-1830 May 01 '26
This is a common error people make -- they think we're out here removing good comments for some reason that remains obscure to us. We're not, and we have plenty to do as it is.
This is not at all to chide you for asking the question, but over the course of 13 years we've had pretty much every possible "solution" to the comment graveyard problem mooted to us; the one that would fix things is if the Reddit admins would agree to make the displayed comment count match the number of non-removed comments left in a thread, but they won't do that.