Record feed blocks with 0 replies

[Sonya*]

In record feeds or activity stream blocks, the number of comments is always shown. Even if the comments are disabled from the database.

Please respect the setting and do not display the number of replies for the database records where replies are not possible.

[MMXII]

I never really understood why one would display 0 replies at all. This goes for any places, even in the forum lists. Why display anything, if nothing is there yet? I doubt that a "0" will motivate anybody to be the first one interacting. I think the look would be much cleaner, if any text that informs about "0 anything" was hidden and then it starts with the number 1, if a first reply/view/vote/download/whatever has happened.