can you give the community name and a screenshot to see what you're talking about?
(it's possible the community admin has the comment hierarchy indicators turned on, which is an outline-like numbering of comments designed to help screenreader users follow which comment is in reply to which other comment.)
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(it's possible the community admin has the comment hierarchy indicators turned on, which is an outline-like numbering of comments designed to help screenreader users follow which comment is in reply to which other comment.)