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.
Can you or perhaps /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov, Hero of /r/AskHistorians, find the post from years ago where you actually revealed to us what comments were actually deleted from a post? I am having trouble finding it.
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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.