REddit is crazy. Every thread is filled with [deleted] talking to [deleted]. It seems like most of the throwaway posters get passes, the one posting <= 3 word replies. But all the top well thought out multi paragraph conversations all end up happening between deleted users.
Fortunately there's the Pushshift archive, which mitigates that somewhat - replace "reddit.com" in the URL with "unddit.com" or "reveddit.com", these sites will fill in removed comments from this archive.
