I think that #1680 goes too far and hides too much information of removed content, making the mod log useless. For example, here is a removed post:

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This used to have the title, text and link still shown, which allowed users to see for themselves what was removed, and to decide themselves if it made sense. Its also the reason we are adding a separate purge option.

So I suggest that we blank out info only if the creator themselves deleted an item, and probably for removed comments as well (there, text is hidden from the website, so it makes sense to hide it from the api too). But removed posts and communities should still show all information.

Originally posted by Nutomic in #1813

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    At first it was like that, then someone requested that we blank out posts and comments instead of just set the deleted flag. So we should pry vote on this, bc I don’t want to have to keep going back and forth. It doesn’t matter to me either way.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1679

    if the creator themselves deleted an item

    Only a creator can delete it. Mods can remove it, and in that situation we might want to blank things out.

    Originally posted by dessalines in #1813