As it is now, anyone can read “deleted” posts very easily. I propose changing the wording from “deleted” to “retracted” or something similar. I see the value of not actually deleting posts, but the way it’s worded is misleading as the posts are not actually deleted.
Edit: Sorry, misunderstood the first post
I think you two are talking about two different things here 
As it is right now, posts that you hit the “delete this post” icon on are deleted after 24 hours — in the meantime it edits the post and shows a “this author deleted their post” message.
Since edit history is visible I assume this is what you’re referring to @asanyan?
We could reduce the 24 hour period before it’s actually deleted, or we could disable public edit history.
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Disable public edit history 
Its a bit tricky.
On one hand, I can edit a post that you hearted to say “Hitler was a cool guy” (he wasnt, btw just to be clear 
).
Without edit history, there is now way to tell what you actually hearted or reacted to.
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“Retract” is incorrect. When a platform censors a poster (regardless of whether that censorship is good/fair), the poster is not taking back their statement, but simply being silenced. “Retraction” means the poster/writer themself (or the publication which cosigned the writer) has disavowed the previously published work. As a platform which does not check posts before publishing them, this forum is under no obligation to disavow deleted posts.
The edit symbol would still show up, it just wouldn’t be clickable. Has anyone (besides me/mods) ever found this feature handy? There’s probably little harm in turning it off…
Only when I’m being nosy and want to see someone’s deleted post.
I am just going to disable edit history, hopefully that resolves this issue
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Isn’t it possible to make it only visible to mods?
I use it occasionally if I suspect someone is spreading FUD because sometimes people edit out their typical FUD rhetoric to not get the topic instantly removed
Then mods will know. We can still access it.