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It's fascinating to use https://www.reveddit.com/ for any of the big subs when a 'controversial' topic is posted. I've seen threads where 30-50% of comments were removed (in the thousands) and even the mildest critiques and disagreements of the topic would be deleted by mods, often faster than they can be archived.

Some of the bigger subs have 100+ moderators so people don't realize the massive scale of moderation going on.

The idea that comments get deleted because they are 'bad faith', racist, or whatever is wildly incorrect. Moderators act like editors of their own pet newspapers where the comments are the content.