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View submission: Voting & commenting on archived posts
This is a fair concern, but one thing that we also did to assess the quality of these comments was to manually review them and send them to mods in each subreddit to determine if they were lower quality than average. While certainly some of the difference that you mentioned is due to mods not seeing the comments (and hence why we added the new Automod updates), a vast majority of these comments were deemed high quality during our manual review.
Comment by HQna at 29/09/2021 at 21:57 UTC
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That seems strange, but alright, thanks!
However, one general question: did you observe the likeliness of OP of an old post replying to a comment made in their post? Because especially in the example you gave in the beginning, just being able to ask a question in a possible years old post does not mean you are actually getting what you want (an answer to your question) - and I would assume that the older a post is the less likely it is that OP is still able or willing to reply.