Honestly, the number of deleted comments on r/science is probably a good representation for how garbage most comments on reddit are. The main rule that gets co

Honestly, the number of deleted comments on r/science is probably a good representation for how garbage most comments on reddit are. The main rule that gets comments deleted: "Comments that only rely on a user's non-professional anecdotal evidence to confirm or refute a study will be removed". It's just not useful to have those types of comments on a science based thread. Of course, it's hard to audit the moderators. We don't know if they're deleting comments outside of their rules as well.