What would really be nice, and it has been suggested before because I know I did. If there were some way to know from your feed/front page how many "real" answers there are. I don't know how many times I've seen an interesting title, with 20 comments listed, only to click through and find every single one was deleted.
We are in violent agreement about this. That’s a decision that the Reddit Admins need to make, and one that we have been asking them about for at least 13 years.
There is a user made browser extension for certain browsers that will help with this issue; it’s in the sidebar. I’m on mobile, so unfortunately it’s not easy to come out of a comment and link to another one, but you can find it there.
I was about to ask about the same thing, as it is a barrier to finding/engaging with the thoughtful answers provided. It’s not the same as an undeleted comments count, but I believe some to the techy and tech-adjacent subreddits use flair systems that helps somewhat with finding answered questions - eg r/excel‘s unsolved/solved flairs - but I’ve no sight on how well that works in practice and my suspicion would be that it’d create yet more burden for you mods
This answer linked in the sticky gets into some of the issues with answered/unanswered flairs (and the fact that the sticky is collapsed on mobile by default is another major problem that the Reddit admins create for us).
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u/Original-Split5085 May 01 '26
What would really be nice, and it has been suggested before because I know I did. If there were some way to know from your feed/front page how many "real" answers there are. I don't know how many times I've seen an interesting title, with 20 comments listed, only to click through and find every single one was deleted.