My proposal is adding css that hides removed or hidden posts on the comment count, thus making the subreddit way easier to browse, post and contribute to.
My second proposal would be hiding removed posts in a thread.
Another handy thing could be unanswered and answered flairs. A more wide use of flairs overall.
Cheers.
This is certainly one place to do it.
A better place, in this specific case, is to send the message to the reddit admins.
Unfortunately, the code to display total comments, rather than visible comments, is 'hard-wired' into reddit's underlying code. Individual subreddit moderators have no control over that.
The apparent motivation is to fool spambots. Every user still sees all their own posts as existing, so bots can't learn and improve their algorithms to get around blockers.
Trust me, to disply the number of visible comments rather than total comments has to be #1 or #2 on the AH mods' wishlist.
We've addressed the top of answered/unanswered flair many times, such as here.