Let me preface this by saying that I love this subreddit and I understand that the rules of this sub contribute a lot to the quality of the answer one can expect for it .
Yesterday I checked , using another subreddit , if any of my comments were deleted and I found out that seven of my answers on ask historians were deleted . No notification ever appeared and if I go to the comments in my profile I can still see it in the thread. About the answers itself: I've reread them and I understood why the majority of them were deleted but I still think that a couple of my submissions are in line with this sub rules'. I'm not pretending that I didn't do anything wrong but I would like to know which rules did I break , in order not to repeat the same mistake in the future. My question is : is there a way to improve this situation? I understand that mods cannot justify every single action but is there a way to at least notify people when their comments are deleted? And is it acceptable to message the mods and ask why your answer was rejected?
Hi there - the short answer is yes, while we don't provide removal reasons for every removed comment (doing so isn't practical in terms of either clutter or mod resources) you are always very welcome to reach out to get clarification as to the reasons an answer of yours was removed and/or to discuss how it might be improved. We generally ask that people use modmail for this purpose.
Edit just to note: While this isn't what you're talking about, one tangential issue worth highlighting for anyone reading is that what we won't do is discuss removed answers with third parties. This is partly to protect our own sanity, but mostly because we don't think it's fair on someone to rake over their answer attempts behind their back, nor is it particularly productive since such a conversation will do nothing to help the poster actually improve their answer.
I'd second this. Obviously there's a limit to what mods can do, but occasionally there are relatively high-effort answers that get removed, and it seems like it would be more polite to at least let the user know that something had happened. Obviously I understand the workload thing, mods are volunteers and everything, but it's to do with how reddit works as well, that there will be no indication at all to the user by default, so I think there should ideally be a slightly higher level of notification. Basically the one area I think could be better with the moderation here.