Quoting someone from replit:
part of it is because we’re going to be revamping cover pages (community depriorized) and part of it is the community has grown stagnant in the past year and ~40-60% of comments created are just spam/phishing that gets deleted
plus (to a smaller extent) rampant bullying/nsfw chats/etc. that moderation doesn’t have the capacity to handle (edited)