Ever since I joined this subreddit, I notice that my general feed gets posts from this subreddit with more than 1 comment usually. Only to my disappointment, when I open the posts there is only a bot comment visible or all the user comments have been removed. I'm not gaining anything from being here.
If finding answers is your main issue, we have several tools and features that can help. Using our Browser Extension corrects the number of comments shown to more accurately reflect what is visible in the thread, while our Twitter, Facebook, and Sunday Digest feature dozens of answers (or more) each week. That said, we do understand this subreddit is not for everyone, so if you don't want to follow it, we quite understand.
You might like /r/HistoriansAnswered. I've been getting a lot more out of here ever since I found that sub.
The mods on this sub hate hearing negative feedback. They refuse to implement the obvious solution of tagging posts that have at least 1 moderator approved comment. Their reasons for this are absurd and revolve around wanting to encourage people not to stop after one answer (what percent of questions get that today?) and the effort it would take to implement (it would take no more effort than what is done removing posts currently).
I keep hoping the mods will put their egos aside and simply try to make the sub better. Give it a go for a month and then post a poll asking for feedback. That would be the obvious solution. However, the mods can’t entertain the idea they are wrong. They prefer to argue their way out of the solution as opposed to just trying it.
I suspect more time and energy has been spent shooting down this idea in the past than it would have taken to simply try it.