Quick Question: I noticed that comments are deleted - a lot, on this site. More than any others. Is that because of the content of the comments? Or a general policy?

@elikakohen Well, there was this meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/3799/759

I don't hang out enough on other sites to know really how we may differ. @MonicaCellio is probably better suited to that.

As for your last comment: I asked you to clarify a term. You did so with an edit which exchanged the term for something else. So my comment became obsolete, and I deleted it. That made your response obsolete as well.

Ah - thanks. We normally delete our own once they become obsolete, at least for a frame of reference to others.

So - as it stands now ... (if it is clear) - are these types of questions inappropriate for this site?

Is that the reason for the downvotes?

Or mostly because it was unclear?

And also - would you mind adding a tag, "apologetics"?

@DoubleAA Thanks for the clarification.

@elikakohen @DoubleAA in my experience (on a subset of sites) our comment-deletion rates are somewhere between "normal" and "more lenient" than other sites. The last time I saw stats, which was 18-24 months ago I think, we had one of the highest rates of posted comments on the network, so it's not surprising that a lot of comments (by raw count) get deleted. We tend to get a lot of conversations in comments, and mods often move those to chat so people can continue to converse there.

Obsolete comments get removed when noticed (which might be because of flags).

Comments aren't meant to be permanent, so once they've served their purpose -- e.g. to request a clarification, and the author edited the post -- they can go. There is no negative reflection on the person whose obsolete comments are deleted.

i added a comment that possibly disproved DoubleAAs comment, and yet his comment remains while mine is gone, any idea what happened? The comment was in this thread: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/75829/…