My mistake, I misunderstood and thought purge was already present.

I think my tendency would be to consider there to be about 3 categories of content. In parentheses is the result that I would probably go with when classifying the content in that category.

• Rule Violation (can be viewed upon click)
• Reprehensible (cannot be viewed)
• Banned/Illegal (purged from the DB)

Clearly banned/illegal or reprehensible content would also be rule violations in most cases, so I more mean that rule violation is the minimum category to be moderated and that a rule violation isn’t excluded from the other categories, etc.

Given that purge exists, it seems like showing the content when you go to them makes sense.

The only other idea I have is implementing a click to reveal, but that seems like overkill to me.