If you post anything and go to the "posts" tab in your profile, it always shows at least one comment! (on PC)
I think this is because the number of "comments' shown, really is the number of posts in the thread, and the "thread" starts at your posts "title", and everything below it is a "comment", or a post in the thread.
An easy fix for this, @zep, is instead of displaying the length/how many posts there are in the thread, just change it to be posts_in_thread-1, or whatever your var names are. If it doesn't just work like that, then you can make a new var called something like "num_of_comments_in_thread" and set it to the number of posts in thread minus one, and display that instead of posts in thread.
I admit this also throws me off. I've never bothered to complain about it, but I do feel like a post with no replies should show 0, not 1.
My intuition that it should be 0 is probably a de facto standard set by years of encountering other similar stuff on the web.
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