As others have said, these comments have been removed. We expect quite a lot from answers in this subreddit and answers which don't meet our standards are removed.

Since people always want to know what's been hidden from them, here's a brief description of the 5 removed comments:

• A 2 sentence reply containing a platitude
• A 3 sentence reply without proper grammar
• A 4 sentence reply containing an anecdote
• A 2 sentence reply referencing the removed comments
• A 1 sentence reply containing a guess

I'm not a historian, just a regular reader and occasional questioner. But let me encourage you to stick around and explain one thing that tends to be true of this sub --

Most questions effectively go unanswered. It's still worthwhile to stick around and ask questions.

In AskHistorians, your questions about history get answered by actual historians - people who are academically trained, often in the specific aspect of history you're asking about. And they do it for free.

That's amazing. I don't work in my field for free. Many people refuse to on principle. But here, you'll find people so dedicated to their subject matter that they get paid to do it all day, and in their spare time, they do it for free for those of us who are just curious.

The answers are often given in great detail, and usually with sources.

So if you ask a question, you'll often find that there wasn't a trained historian in that subject who had the inclination and the time to write you a detailed, sourced answer for free. So you don't get an answer every time. It's still worth sticking around, because when there is such a user available, the answers are incredibly enlightening.

(Incidentally, I say they "effectively" go unanswered, because a typical pattern is that 5 or 6 unqualified people give anecdotal, unsourced answers, which a mod deletes because of the rules of the sub)

Comments which don't comport with the subreddit are removed by the moderator team. Unfortunately, due to reddit architecture, the comment count displayed doesn't count visible comments, but includes removed ones as well. Nothing we can do about that unfortunately.

Not a mod.

That being said, when a comment that has no children is removed by the moderators, it will show up in the "all X comments" part but will be invisible to all but the moderators and the user who made the comment in question. /r/AskHistorians is famed for being actively moderated, meaning low-quality or inaccurate comments will be removed. So in your question, the 5 comments were too short, irrelevant, or inaccurate, and were consequently removed by the mods so they can no longer be seen.

It means a moderator deleted them for whatever reason (usually they're breaking subreddit rules, e.g. they're speculation, uninformative, jokes, or otherwise low quality).

Is there a way to make a mirror so the deleted comments are visible? While they may not be up to the ridiculous standards of this sub they often contain information that the OP might still be interested in seeing.

Edit: Way to use your words, guys. Why would you bother explaining something?